Existence
[ɪg'zɪst(ə)ns;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɪstəns]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence.
(n.) Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war.
(n.) That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.
編輯:洛娜
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Being, entity.[2]. Life, animation.[3]. Continuance, duration.
手打:路德维格
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Being, entity, creature
ANT:Nonentity, non-existence, chimera
編輯:丽诺尔
例句/造句/用法:
- A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Give my love to your aunt, George dear, and implore her not to curse the viper that has crossed your path and blighted your existence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A constitution of the Japanese type came into existence in 1909, making China a limited monarchy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- This is what it is to live; he cried, now I enjoy existence! 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- She felt strange and inevitable, as if she were centred upon the pivot of all existence, there was no further reality. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I must part with you for my whole life: I must begin a new existence among strange faces and strange scenes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- My existence will be simply unendurable to me, unless I do something towards clearing my character at once. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But it means its continuation under conditions where it has much less justification for existence. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But perhaps the world will doubt the existence of such an artiSt. What will they doubt? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Genoa and Venice, the only two remaining which can pretend to an independent existence, have both been enfeebled by it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A few men, philosophers or lovers of wisdom--or truth--may by study learn at least in outline the proper patterns of true existence. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Until the beginning of 1882 there were only a few arc-lighting stations in existence for the limited distribution of current. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She had always accepted with philosophic calm the fact that such existences as hers were pedestalled on foundations of obscure humanity. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But no connexions among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- If perceptions are distinct existences, they form a whole only by being connected together. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
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