Existence

(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.

编辑:洛娜

• A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A constitution of the Japanese type came into existence in 1909, making China a limited monarchy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This is what it is to live; he cried, now I enjoy existence! 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• She felt strange and inevitable, as if she were centred upon the pivot of all existence, there was no further reality. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• 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. 简·爱.
• My existence will be simply unendurable to me, unless I do something towards clearing my character at once. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But it means its continuation under conditions where it has much less justification for existence. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But perhaps the world will doubt the existence of such an artiSt. What will they doubt? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Genoa and Venice, the only two remaining which can pretend to an independent existence, have both been enfeebled by it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A few men, philosophers or lovers of wisdom--or truth--may by study learn at least in outline the proper patterns of true existence. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Until the beginning of 1882 there were only a few arc-lighting stations in existence for the limited distribution of current. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She had always accepted with philosophic calm the fact that such existences as hers were pedestalled on foundations of obscure humanity. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But no connexions among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• If perceptions are distinct existences, they form a whole only by being connected together. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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