exists

英 [ɪɡˈzɪsts]

美 [ɪɡˈzɪsts]

v.  存在; 实际上有; (尤指在困境或贫困中)生活，生存
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 存在;实际上有
  If somethingexists, it is present in the world as a real thing.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
• VERB （尤指在逆境中）生存，生活
  Toexistmeans to live, especially under difficult conditions or with very little food or money.
  1. I exist from one visit to the next...
     我的生活就是一个接一个的访问。
  2. I was barely existing.
     我勉强维持生计。
  3. ...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

双语例句

• Salt exists in many things.
  许多东西里有盐分。
• No one exists in a vacuum.
  没有一个人是生活在真空中的。
• The spirit still exists.
  精神永在。
• This may help to undermine the brittle truce that currently exists.
  这也许会火上浇油，破坏当前脆弱不稳的休战局面。
• For the faculty, there exists the triad of responsibilities: teaching, research, and service.
  教员要承担三重责任：教学、研究与服务。
• It's not just that a gulf exists in living standards — there's a psychological ravine.
  不仅仅是生活水平上存在巨大差异，心理上也有鸿沟。
• That problem no longer exists.
  那个问题已经不存在了。
• However you dress it up, a bank only exists to lend money.
  无论你如何粉饰，银行就是为了放贷而生的。
• This kind of forest exists nowhere else in the world
  在世界其他地方找不到这样的森林。
• There exists in the cosmos a preferred frame of reference.
  宇宙中有一个从优参照系。