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A continuation is something that carries on from what came before without stopping, or a part that follows on directly from an earlier part — like a road that is a continuation of another road, or the next chapter being a continuation of a story.
延續、接續
組成continue (to keep going without stopping) + ation (the result or process of doing something).
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
continuationnoun/kənˌtɪnjʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n/
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The act or state of continuing or being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession
- There is no reason for the continuation of this discrepancy in maximum penalties since the relevant factor here is assault, not the sex of the person assaulted.
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That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
- the continuation of a story
- The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point.
- Whenever a Scheme expression is evaluated a continuation exists that wants the result of the expression.
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ball-gamesbasketballgamesA successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。