continentals
n.
1. 大陆人:指欧洲大陆的居民,通常用于与英国人区分。
2. 大陆军:美国独立战争时期的美国殖民地军队。
例句
The continentals have never understood our preference for warm beer.
欧洲大陆人根本不理解我们为什么喜欢喝温啤酒。
《牛津词典》
Campbell wrote that the prince had said "menacingly" : "we don't really want to be like the continentals, now do we?"
坎贝尔写到王子曾“胁迫地”说过:“我们可不想和大陆人一样,不是吗?”
Their contributions were trivial compared to what the Continentals were able to achieve using the analytical approach.
他们的贡献和大陆上的人用分析方法所能得到的东西比起来是微不足道的。