existence
英 [ɪɡˈzɪstəns]
美 [ɪɡˈzɪstəns]
n. 存在; 实有; (尤指艰难或无聊的)生活,生活方式
复数:existences
Oxford 3000 / BNC.1454 / COCA.2213
牛津词典
noun
- 存在;实有
the state or fact of being real or living or of being present- I was unaware of his existence until today.
直到今天我才知道有他这么个人。 - This is the oldest Hebrew manuscript in existence .
这是现存最古老的希伯来语手稿。 - Pakistan came into existence as an independent country after the war.
巴基斯坦在战后开始作为一个独立的国家存在。 - a crisis that threatens the industry's continued existence
对这一行业的继续存在构成威胁的危机
- I was unaware of his existence until today.
- (尤指艰难或无聊的)生活,生活方式
a way of living especially when this is difficult or boring- The family endured a miserable existence in a cramped apartment.
这家人在狭小的公寓里艰难度日。 - We led a poor but happy enough existence as children.
我们儿时的生活虽然贫穷却过得很愉快。 - They eke out a precarious existence (= they have hardly enough money to live on) .
他们勉强维持着朝不保夕的生活。 - The peasants depend on a good harvest for their very existence (= in order to continue to live) .
农民靠丰收才能活命。
- The family endured a miserable existence in a cramped apartment.
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 存在;实有
Theexistenceof something is the fact that it is present in the world as a real thing.- ...the existence of other galaxies...
其他星系的存在 - The Congress of People's Deputies in effect voted itself out of existence...
(苏联)人民代表大会的投票在事实上终结了自身的存在。 - Public worries about accidents are threatening the very existence of the nuclear power industry.
公众对事故的担忧正威胁着核能工业的生存。
- ...the existence of other galaxies...
- N-COUNT (尤指逆境中的)生活,生活方式
You can refer to someone's way of life as anexistence, especially when they live under difficult conditions.- You may be stuck with a miserable existence for the rest of your life...
你可能一辈子都要过着悲惨的生活。 - Their day-to-day existence was routine.
他们的日常生活很平淡。
- You may be stuck with a miserable existence for the rest of your life...
英英释义
noun
- everything that exists anywhere
- they study the evolution of the universe
- the biggest tree in existence
- the state or fact of existing
- a point of view gradually coming into being
- laws in existence for centuries
双语例句
- Each aspect of a contradiction presupposes the existence of the other aspect.
矛盾的一方各以其另一方为自己存在的前提。 - Denial of the Mafia's existence is nothing new.
否认黑手党的存在并不是什么新鲜事。 - They seek strong sensations to dull their sense of a meaningless existence.
为了冲淡生活毫无意义的感觉,他们追求强烈的刺激。 - Empirical evidence for the existence of population traps is not substantial.
关于人口陷井存在的经验证据还不够充分。 - All religions teach the existence of soul beyond matter.
所有的宗教都说物质以外还有灵魂。 - He had been a rock in the shifting sands of her existence.
他一直是她曲折坎坷的生活中的主心骨。 - No reference to their existence appears in any literature of the period.
这一时期的文学作品中都没有提及他们的存在。 - For weeks he would not go there, would forget the hideous painted thing, and get back his light heart, his wonderful joyousness, his passionate absorption in mere existence.
他会几个星期不上那儿去,也会忘了这幅丑恶的画像,并且恢复了轻松的心情、非凡的愉快和对生活的狂热专注。 - He was eking out an existence on a few francs a day.
他每天就靠几法郎勉强度日。 - Her existence was lightened by bits of gossip.
她的生活靠了飞短流长才不那么乏味。