Since ancient times, thinkers including the Greek astronomer Ptolemy believed in the existence of a huge continent on the South Pole.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

In other words, the judgment of beauty does not depend on the existence of the object for its satisfaction.

换句话说，审美不会依赖于,事物自己的存在形式。

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The public transportation is virtually non-existence. And you should never rely on it.

公共交通形同虚设，你不能依赖它。

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Howard McKeon,ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, questioned why, if the facility was designed for civilian purposes, Iran concealed its existence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

I announced on the first day of class that I don't, myself, believe in the existence of a soul.

第一节课上,我就声明,本人并不相信灵魂的存在

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He tested the free-diving self-propelled submersible - one of only two in existence at the time - on increasingly deep dives off the California coast.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

f truth is the recognition of the systematic character of a certain kind of error, then it would be fully dependent on the prior existence of this error.

如果真理是,对一种错误的系统化字符的认可，那么它会完全依赖于这个错误的先前存在。

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While ElBaradei has said Iran was "on the wrong side of the law" in not disclosing the plant's existence earlier, he used the news conference to sound a note of caution about Iran's intentions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

So, I infer the existence of atoms based on the fact that doing that allows me to explain things that need explaining.

所以说我推测原子的存在是基于,该假设使得我能够解释,所需解释的一些现象

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