Exist

(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'.

校对:赛克

• I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The most friendly relations seemed to exist between the pickets of the two armies. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It has required my utmost exertions to exist without making the least progress in our business. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Along this whole space of the Cordillera true glaciers do not now exist even at much more considerable heights. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• 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. 简·爱.
• Then he gave me such a detail of misfortunes now existing, or that were soon to exist, that he left me half melancholy. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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. 维莱特.
• My friend, the Golden Age still exists in Melnos, and if you come with me, you will dwell in Arcady. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• When we are absent from it, we say it still exists, but that we do not feel, we do not see it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• 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. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But what will fame be to an ephemera who no longer exists? 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• If it actually exists why should I not smell it as well as another? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• 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. 简·爱.
• He did not see her--he never did see her; he hardly knew that such a person existed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was strange how inviolable was the intimacy which existed between him and Hermione. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• You supposed more than really existed. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Three years had intervened, and how, in their pennyless state, could her mother have existed during this time? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• 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. 雪莉.
• Under existing circumstances, however, she is dressed in a plain, spare gown of brown stuff. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But a human impulse is more important than any existing theory. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Bare logic, however important in arranging and criticizing existing subject matter, cannot spin new subject matter out of itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The latter represents the possibilities of the former; not its existing state. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He opposed the existing state of affairs on the ground that it formed neither the citizen nor the man. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

整理:理查德