He promised to spend his remaining years in search of designs that could make human existence on Earth easier.

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In other words, his point is that good is only possible because of the prior existence of bad.

换句话说，他的论点是,善存在的可能,仅在恶的事先存在。

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The concept of the state was fundamentally new to Russia, but gradually came into existence, and his accomplishments had a lot to do with that.

彼得的治国理念对于俄国是前所未闻的,但也逐渐扎下根来,他的功绩即在于此

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Mister Rodney says he was surprised that this poet who came,in his words, from a very well-heeled New England existence, could move him, a Jamaican immigrant man.

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Now, in the course of this discussion, Socrates and his disciples argue about not so much the existence of the soul, but the question really is the immortality of the soul.

在这段谈话中,苏格拉底和他的学生们,讨论的主要不是灵魂存在的问题,而是灵魂不朽的问题

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Machiavelli's preference for these extreme situations expresses his belief that only in moments of great crisis, where the very existence of a state is at risk, does human nature truly reveal itself.

马奇亚维利偏好,这类极端的情势,表述出他相信,仅在重大危机的当头，当一国的存亡面临考验之时，人类的本性才会真正显现出来。

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owes his very existence to the laws.

公民的存在要归功于法律。

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The existence of that play shows to all of us just how seriously Socrates was taken by the greatest of his contemporaries and Aristophanes was along with Sophocles and Euripides and others among the greatest of the Greek playwrights.

这剧本的存在让我们所有人了解到,当代大师有多看重苏格拉底,包括亚里斯多芬尼斯,还有索夫克里斯,尤里庇狄思等大家,及其它伟大的希腊剧作家。

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