英语单词 | exist |
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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 | 1 [VERB 动词]存在;实际上有 If something exists, it is present in the world as a real thing. [V] [ [no cont]
2 [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. [V] [V
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