Exist
[ɪg'zɪst;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɪst]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) have an existence, be extant; 'Is there a God?'.
(verb.) support oneself; 'he could barely exist on such a low wage'; 'Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?'; 'Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day'.
校對:赛克--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
(v. i.) To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
(v. i.) To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
手打:玛里琳
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Be, subsist, have being.[2]. Live, breathe, have life, be alive.[3]. Continue, remain, endure.
艾娜錄入
解釋/意思:
v.i. to have an actual being: to live: to continue to be.—n. Exist′ence state of existing or being: continued being: life: anything that exists: a being.—adjs. Exist′ent having being: at present existing; Existen′tial.
錄入:奥维尔
例句/造句/用法:
- I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The most friendly relations seemed to exist between the pickets of the two armies. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It has required my utmost exertions to exist without making the least progress in our business. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Along this whole space of the Cordillera true glaciers do not now exist even at much more considerable heights. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- She did not exist: she would not be born till to-morrow, some time after eight o'clock a. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Then he gave me such a detail of misfortunes now existing, or that were soon to exist, that he left me half melancholy. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Those few hundreds of French gentlefolk fell into a pit that most of them had been well content should exist for others. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You are no child that one should not speak of what exists; but I only uttered the word--the thing, I assure you, is alien to my whole life and views. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- My friend, the Golden Age still exists in Melnos, and if you come with me, you will dwell in Arcady. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- When we are absent from it, we say it still exists, but that we do not feel, we do not see it. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The ether must be distinguished from the air, for science means by it a medium which exists everywhere and is to be regarded as permeating all space and all matter. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- If it actually exists why should I not smell it as well as another? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I wished to see Jane Eyre, and I fancy a likeness where none exists: besides, in eight years she must be so changed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He did not see her--he never did see her; he hardly knew that such a person existed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The Hindu priest is a part of the family life of his flock, between whom and himself the tie has existed for many generations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was strange how inviolable was the intimacy which existed between him and Hermione. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- You supposed more than really existed. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Three years had intervened, and how, in their pennyless state, could her mother have existed during this time? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Had _Chambers's Journal_ existed in those days, it would certainly have formed Miss Helstone's and Farren's favourite periodical. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Under existing circumstances, however, she is dressed in a plain, spare gown of brown stuff. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But a human impulse is more important than any existing theory. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Bare logic, however important in arranging and criticizing existing subject matter, cannot spin new subject matter out of itself. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The latter represents the possibilities of the former; not its existing state. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- He opposed the existing state of affairs on the ground that it formed neither the citizen nor the man. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- This led him to review the existing state of affairs (1780) and to compare it with the state of affairs during the decline of imperial Rome. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
整理:理查德