| 单词 | existence |
| 释义 | existence (ɪgzɪstəns ) Word forms: existences 1. uncountable noun B2 The existence of something is the fact that it is present in the world as a real thing. ...the existence of other galaxies. [+ of] Tuna are being fished out of existence. Public worries about accidents are threatening the very existence of the nuclear power industry. [+ of] Synonyms: reality, being, life, survival 2. countable noun You can refer to someone's way of life as an existence, especially when they live under difficult conditions. You may be stuck with a miserable existence for the rest of your life. Their day-to-day existence was routine. Quotations: To be, or not to be: that is the questionHamlet I think; therefore I amDiscourse on Method Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solveMan For Himself Collocations: acknowledge the existence of Until 1986, government did not formally acknowledge the existence of the agency. Times, Sunday Times (2015) He acknowledges the existence of two children but declines detail. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Once again the sat nav rebelled and refused to acknowledge the existence of Switzerland. Times, Sunday Times (2014) To her friends, she doubtless lives a charmed existence. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Certainly he has largely enjoyed a charmed existence in his new career. Times, Sunday Times (2008) United had a charmed existence in the Champions League that season. Times, Sunday Times (2012) I'm very lucky that I've always had a comfortable existence. Times, Sunday Times (2010) He had a comfortable existence in France and spent long weekends with his family. Times, Sunday Times (2011) It is a novel about the speed with which a comfortable existence can be blighted by grief. Times, Sunday Times (2016) But a White House spokesman denied the existence of any message. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Whitehall sources did not deny the existence of the plan, but suggested that it was unlikely to go ahead. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Do you deny the existence of such a movement? Anti-Ice (1993) For a few years, they shared a hand-to-mouth existence. Christianity Today It may have been a miserable hand-to-mouth existence, but the two seemed genuinely fond of each other. Times, Sunday Times The wealthiest members of society became increasingly insulated from the vast majority of citizens who lived a hand-to-mouth existence. Christianity Today This cannot be the hand-to-mouth existence that continually changes, but a long-term structure that encourages success. Times, Sunday Times An impoverished hand-to-mouth existence without any security, except that, in their tempestuous way, they loved each other. Times, Sunday Times He argues that this is the aim of human existence. Times, Sunday Times (2014) It's the tragedy of human existence. Times, Sunday Times (2006) I am just as susceptible to the difficulties and hardships that accompany human existence as anyone else. Christianity Today (2000) Insurers continue to ignore their existence. Times, Sunday Times But these wonderfully poetic words can also be terribly deceptive ones, allowing us to bypass the need to mention harsh realities by name, and so ignore their existence. Christianity Today Alphabetical word ordering in dictionaries used to ignore the existence of glottals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The generalizations involved in this theory ignore the existence of subcultures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I can not ignore their existence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Either result would imply the existence of other new, perhaps even more fundamental particles — and the need for accelerators to chase them as well. Times, Sunday Times The terms horizontal (h) and vertical (v) imply the existence and direction of reflections with respect to a vertical axis of symmetry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This follows from the idea that existentially quantified statements have existential import (i.e. they imply the existence of something) while universally quantified statements do not. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Propagation of waves in a true vacuum would imply the existence of electric fields without associated electric charge, or of electric charge without associated matter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a bidirectional universal two features each imply the existence of each other. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This moved them toward independent existence, which they have maintained to the present. Christianity Today The institutions had no independent existence, and the separation of powers between executive, legislature and judiciary was a fiction. Times, Sunday Times Like all the great comic characters, this semisenile old thespian could easily step outside the scripts and carry on an entirely independent existence. Times, Sunday Times On the other side, either one party or both seeks to live an independent existence. Christianity Today I cannot get them a job or start them on that first step to an independent existence. Times, Sunday Times If a person found a watch in the desert, he would immediately infer the existence of a designer. Christianity Today It was this flicker that allowed astrophysicists to observe and detect pulsars in the first place, and infer the existence of neutron stars, which remain invisible. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, the method would not infer the existence of large brown tailless mice, because no mice are known to have both the large and tailless traits. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Reason infers the existence of causes from the existence of effects, without always being able to specify the nature of the causes from the nature of the effects. The Times Literary Supplement Around this time he was sympathetic to historic ideas of structuralism of patterns in nature, but could not go from that to inferring the existence of a designer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But then again, the six-piece's eclectic, indefinable sound owes much to their isolated existence. The Sun I live a very isolated existence and tend not to know about the public persona. Times, Sunday Times I'd gone from this lonely, isolated existence to suddenly having this huge arena of friends from all around the world. The Sun To have a son slowly deteriorate in function until he lives a limited and isolated existence must be extremely upsetting and stressful. Times, Sunday Times Trainees lead an isolated existence. Times, Sunday Times The idea was that every item of expenditure should be assessed, every department should be made to justify the existence of every programme. Times, Sunday Times The study found no discoveries in complementary and alternative medicine that would justify the existence of this center. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was large enough to justify the existence of facilities such as a permanent canteen or snack bar, called a gedunk bar, in addition to the mess. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It brings a miraculous and total transformation of time and place, which perhaps justifies the existence of winter - for without winter, there could be no spring. Times, Sunday Times It's a lonely, fearful existence. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Life as a chief executive can be a lonely existence. Times, Sunday Times (2011) His life ended in a lonely existence in Scotland. Times, Sunday Times (2010) In fact, the mere existence of the libel laws stops many important articles from being written. Times, Sunday Times The mere existence of a tattoo of the club crest on the outside of a lower leg would be insufficient; these things can be faked. Times, Sunday Times For these companies, 'the mere existence of sanctions was sufficient to deter further action'. Times, Sunday Times The mere existence of such an open-ended guarantee helped to lower borrowing rates for governments struggling with excessive debt and helped them to turn the corner in the financial crisis. Times, Sunday Times The mere existence of such institutions serves as a deterrent to unethical conduct. The Times Literary Supplement It was, he says, a miserable existence. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Being unemployed can be a miserable existence. The Sun (2013) They have been locked in this miserable existence for 30 years. The Sun (2008) Although she grew up on the farm, she escaped at the first possible opportunity from what she considered to be a boring and mundane existence. Times, Sunday Times The couple had settled into a comfortably mundane existence in a quiet rural idyll during their 21 years of marriage. The Sun The pictorial angularity subliminally suggests a rigid, regimented, mundane existence dictated by routine. Times, Sunday Times For the rest of the year heralds have a more mundane existence designing new coats of arms, tracing pedigrees and identifying arms for antique dealers and auctioneers. Times, Sunday Times She dreams of being able to escape from her mundane existence one day. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You can allow cutlery to ask questions about the nature of existence. Times, Sunday Times At school, he was an accomplished oil painter, an eccentric youth who disconcerted his family and teachers with precocious questions about the nature of existence. Times, Sunday Times It's a play about the nature of existence and reality. Times, Sunday Times I've told myself that dreadful things can happen to anyone at any time; it's the very nature of existence. Times, Sunday Times But such thoughts are entirely pointless, a bad game with the nature of existence. Times, Sunday Times Cricket writers spend half their lives away from home and the nomadic existence is as lonely or fulfilling as you make it. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Stockport made me redundant and I've had a nomadic existence since. The Sun (2010) So much of my life has been a nomadic existence. The Sun (2012) A reorganisation of rooms indoors bought the couple a more peaceful existence. Times,Sunday Times His policy for a peaceful existence on the estate has been to keep his head down and mind his own business. Times, Sunday Times There they get acquainted with a more peaceful existence than to which they were accustomed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This will also go a longer way to determine a persons level of morality, peaceful existence, harmony and love to people in the society. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They sought a peaceful existence as farmers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Certain grand unified theories predict the existence of monopoles which, unlike elementary particles, are solitons (localized energy packets). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many grand unified theories predict the existence of both magnetic monopoles and dyons. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Modern interest in the concept stems from particle theories, notably the grand unified and superstring theories, which predict their existence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After their application to any inhomogeneous region, they predict the existence of even parts in functions of the distribution of order parameters. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Forty nine years ago, a 35-year-old physicist predicted the existence of something he described as a 'massive boson'. Times, Sunday Times However, there are other formulations of that axiom that do not presuppose the existence of an empty set. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Therefore, the special sciences presuppose the existence of minds which can have these states. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A provision in connection with an appeal presupposed the existence of an appeal not the revocation or abolition of a right of appeal. Times, Sunday Times All this presupposes the existence of some historical evidence. The Times Literary Supplement Each form of the actual entity presupposes the existence of a principle that gives a certain shape to it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Two teams of experts will attempt to prove the existence of ghosts. The Sun (2010) He set out to use mathematics to prove the existence of God. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Proving the existence of a deposit depended on the bank's honesty. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Or question the existence of a spring solstice. Times, Sunday Times They expect you to gasp in horror and rend your garment at the news that they question the existence of an omniscient creator. Times, Sunday Times If the gorilla's death makes even a few people question the existence of zoos, and using animals for entertainment, then at least some good will have come of it. Times, Sunday Times Nevertheless, his scepticism stopped short of questioning the existence of metaphysical essences. The Times Literary Supplement His wife passes away and as a result he questions the existence of the afterlife. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was not until the 1800s that humans began to recognize the existence and role of germs and microbes in relation to disease. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The new municipal statute, however, recognize the existence of other forms of cohabitation, protecting them within the limits set by the legal system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most climatologists recognize the existence of various tipping points that push small forcings beyond a certain threshold that makes the change irreversible while the forcings are still in place. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although pluralism recognizes the existence of inequality, it asserts that all groups have an opportunity to pressure the state. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Basic economic theory recognizes the existence of externalities and their potential negative effects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He tried to secure compensation by threatening to reveal the existence of the residue. Times, Sunday Times But, while such discontinuities may reveal the existence of chasms, they can never measure their depth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He tells her that if she doesn't give him money he will reveal the existence of the island to the authorities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But a little homework revealed the existence of entire books devoted to picnics. The Times Literary Supplement The intelligence and security committee revealed the existence of the datasets, which it called 'large databases containing personal information about a wide range of people'. Times, Sunday Times His was a solitary existence, he was havoc incarnate. Times, Sunday Times However, polar bears are suited to a solitary existence. Times, Sunday Times I got that but also a solitary existence that left me with little distraction from my demons. Times, Sunday Times It was a solitary existence, growing up on a farm on the outskirts of an army town. Times, Sunday Times His solitary existence remained unchanged over the years. Times, Sunday Times Sea level rises would wipe out three of the most densely populated regions in the world and threaten the existence of 40 countries. The Sun After 20 years of good publicity, grasses and perennials have become an unstoppable force that has the potential to threaten the existence of shrubs in our gardens altogether. Times, Sunday Times This time they focused on the problems that threaten the existence of the sea. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The widespread breeding and distribution of hybrids could threaten the existence of both pure species and subspecies of the ecosystem. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some extreme cases show that the predators may threaten the existence of every clutch in the colony. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There have been research studies applying quantitative, empirical, and econometric techniques in an effort to verify the existence of relational capital and its importance to the innovation activity in firms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Several materials systems have verified the existence of these waves. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Verifying the existence of alternative stable states carries profound implications for ecosystem management. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Now the very existence of the movement is under threat. Times, Sunday Times (2017) They could not verify the worth, and in some cases the very existence, of some assets. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Here is a business facing a serious challenge to its very existence. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Translations: Chinese: 存在 Japanese: 存在 |
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