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Exist Verb Means Live Unemployment 动词   [V N

英语单词 exist
英美音标 英 [ɪɡ'zɪst] 美 [ɪɡ'zɪst]
中文释义 v.存在;生存;活着
英语例句 (1) Most scientists believe that water doesn't exist on the surface of the moon.
(2) That department has ceased to exist.
(3) Man cannot exist without air.
(4) The old lady exists only on rice coffee and bread.
中文例句 (1) 多数科学家认为,月球表面不存在水。
(2) 那部门已不复存在。
(3) 没有空气人就不能生存。
(4) 老太太仅靠咖啡面包生活。
vocabulary简明 The verb exist means to live, to have reality. Dodos no longer exist because they were hunted to extinction.
vocabulary扩展 It's not only "live" things that exist. The government exists, as does your fear of heights. Anything that can be acknowledged in the present, exists. Another meaning for the verb exist is to support oneself or survive. If someone doesn't have a job, they may have to exist on unemployment benefits until they find one.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]存在;实际上有 If something exists, it is present in the world as a real thing.
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  • He thought that if he couldn't see something, it didn't exist...

    他认为自己看不见的东西就不存在。

  • Research opportunities exist in a wide range of pure and applied areas of entomology...

    纯理论昆虫学和应用昆虫学的众多领域都存在着研究机会。

  • When Alfred Adler first postulated in 1908 that there existed an inborn instinct of aggression Freud argued against it.

    当艾尔弗雷德·阿德勒于1908年首次提出人生来就有攻击性本能的假设时,弗洛伊德对此表示反对。

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[VERB 动词](尤指在逆境中)生存,生活 To exist means to live, especially under difficult conditions or with very little food or money.
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  • I exist from one visit to the next...

    我的生活就是一个接一个的访问。

  • I was barely existing.

    我勉强维持生计。

  • ...the problems of having to exist on unemployment benefit.

    不得不靠失业救济金过活的那些问题

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