He said attempts to do this violated earlier agreements to limit slavery to areas where it already existed.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

He's referring to the Tyranny of the Thirty that existed after the Athenian defeat.

他所指的是三十暴君,成立于雅典兵败之后。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But we can only remember, he thinks, in the relevant way if our soul existed before the birth of our body, before the creation of our body.

但是我们之前知道,他认为我们的灵魂,存在于我们的身体诞生之前,在我们的身体被创造之前

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He was investigating a problem that had existed in the Navy for many years.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

There is no way to talk about what he's talking about in the kinds of settlements that existed before the invention of the polis, and that I think is worth mentioning.

因为他是无法,在城邦出现前谈论,这种存在形式的居住地的,我认为这一点很值得注意

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Fosatti says he had no idea of the level of poverty that existed outside the developed world.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The climax of the film is that meeting between Sgt.Campbell and Pax's trainer, Laurie Kellogg, "He gave me back pieces of myself that I forgot even existed."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

He adds that religious fanaticism took its place, though it existed earlier."

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

By stealing the day Shrek was born, the conniving elf (in his plot to take over the kingdom) leaves the ogre to deal with a world in which he never existed.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27