Scientists use the word biodiversity to describe the existence of many kinds of plants,animals and other organisms.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

And given this existence of this immaterial soul, it's a possibility, indeed a fair likelihood, hat we will survive our deaths.

鉴于它们的存在，这是可能的，也的确是有这样的可能性的，让我们能在死亡后继续存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Genesis is concerned to account for the origin of things and wrestles with the existence of evil, the existence of idolatry and suffering in a world that's created by a good god.

创世纪》被认为解释了万物的来源,试图解决罪恶的存在，盲目崇拜的存在以及这个受苦的世界,这是一个善良的神创造的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This would split the states of the Confederacy and might end its very existence.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

It's that backdrop--it's that sense of bureaucratized existence-- that defamiliarization has, to a certain extent, the ideological purpose of dispelling and undermining.

而这种灰色的机械的背景-,在一定程度上被文学带来的陌生化，冲淡了，减弱了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Rising seas and warming conditions threaten its existence.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Aristotle, over 2000 years ago, "Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, " the whole aim and end of human existence."

二千多年前的亚里斯多德，“快乐是人生的意义和目的，人类存在的最终目标“

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Existence of the underground facility first revealed in September raised international suspicion over the extent and aim of the country's nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

And it is not for Machiavelli simply the existence of these two different moralities that is at stake.

此外对于马基雅维利来说，不仅仅,这两种不同的道德观岌岌可危。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Tehran denies there was any secrecy involved, and that the plant hadn't reached the point where the government needed to disclose its existence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

You might see them on the site and we just keep our operating expenses low so far and by doing that, we've been able to stay cash flow positive for basically the entire existence of the company.

在网站上可以看到,我们一直保持低成本运营，这样可以使得现金流的流入大于流出,自公司创办以来都是这样做的。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

Idries says another obstacle to dentente between Iraq's Shi'ites, Sunnis,and Kurds is the existence of four-million Iraqis, living abroad, many of whom are disenfranchised.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

And the relevance of that is investors have presupposed throughout the existence of these two entities that the government would be very hesitant to let them go down.

这就使得,投资者的前提是,在这两家公司的运营期内,政府会很犹豫,让他们倒闭。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

questioning the existence and scope of the Holocaust, the Nazi extermination campaign against European Jews.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Pick any two perpendicular directions Then the same entity, the same arrow which has an existence of its own, independent of axis, can be described by you and me using different numbers.

选取两个互相垂直的方向,这样同样的物体,同一矢量,并且是独立于坐标轴而存在的,可以被你和我用不同的数字来描述

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Free trade agreements top the agenda both agreements already in existence among members, and the proposed APEC agreement that would liberalize trade across the Pacific.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Then when we look at the statistics, all we see are a lot of assets in the fund that performed well and the underperforming fund that was merged out of existence isn't there anymore.

于是当我们去查阅统计资料时,只能看到资产规模巨大且运作良好的基金,那些运作不佳的基金,随着合并与它的纪录一起消失了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He notes that the makeup of the commission suggests it is more concerned with politics and using history and various historic facts to justify its own existence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

But, in the meantime, what you have is the continual reproduction of that yell, that laugh, that "wow," that "yes," that "that's all right," all those things that they say just to register their existence and their relation with one another.

但同时，你听到看到的只是不断重复的,叫喊，笑，“哇“，“是“，“对极了“,所有这些都只是用来显示他们的存在,和他们之间的关系。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"It is relatively cheap for what you get, and it has been in existence for 60 years, so it is well established as a health service and it works,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

And then A.M. Snodgrass says, "I offer this as a further argument against the existence of a historical, Homeric society."

·M ·斯诺德格拉斯又说道,"我质疑荷马社会,在史实上存在的真实性"

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There seems to be in existence from the beginning of creation this universal moral law, and that is: the God-endowed sanctity of human life.

这个道德准则似乎在,创始之初就存在，它是指：,上帝使人类具有神圣性。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Pretty clearly, to think about death and continued existence and survival, we have to get clear about the nature of personal identity.

很清楚，要想思考死亡,和继续存在并且活着，我们不得不弄清楚个人身份的本质。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And so the very same moment will be the end of my body, the end of my existence,the end of my personhood.

这一刻就是我肉体的灭亡，我的存在的停止，我作为人的消亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's neither in the text nor in the reader but the result of the negotiation back and forth between the text and the reader, he says, that sort of brings the literary work into existence in a virtual space.

它不在文本中，也不在读者的视域中,而在反复阅读文本和读者的视域之中，他说，那样会把文学作品,放到一个虚拟的空间中去。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

What gives it its identity and ? enduring existence over time?

什么赋予它身分,且历经时间的考验？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

So at best that's a tie, and hence, no compelling reason to accept the existence of a soul.

这最多只能算是平局,所以,还没有令人信服的理由来接受灵魂的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the crucial question, presumably, is, "Should we believe in the existence of a soul?"

而最为关键的,也许是,我们应该相信灵魂是存在的吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It doesn't have a concrete independent existence. And that means that human beings and only human beings are the potential source of evil in the world. Responsibility for evil lies in the hands of human beings.

它没有具体的形态，这意味着,人类，也只有人类，可能是潜伏着的邪恶的源泉,人类要为邪恶的出现负责。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

And yet we know that evil is a condition of human existence.

但我们知道，邪恶是人类生存的一种状况。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选