来自continue, 持续，连续。

1. These various complaints are part of a continuum of ill-health.

这些各种各样的疾病、不适都是身体健康状况欠佳的一种表现。

2. It is at one end of the cost continuum.

这位于成本序列的一端。

3. You cannot separate one part of history from the continuum.

不能割断历史.

4. The medical professional bodies reply that development from fertilisation onwards is a continuum.

专业医疗机构答复说受精以后的发育是连续的。

5. We realize that they are all fused in an undifferentiated continuum.

我们发现它们在一个无差别的连续统中溶合。