or you can turn it into a question, and ask "Is there" to ask the existence of something.

当然你也可以把它变成一个问句，用“Is there”来询问某些事物是否存在。

There is 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We posit--or the fans of souls posit-- the existence of souls so as to explain something that needs explaining about us.

我们 或者灵魂论的拥护者们假设,灵魂是存在的,这就能解释一些我们自身不解的东西

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The message of the flood story also seems to be that when humans destroy the moral basis of society, when they are violent or cruel or unkind, they endanger the very existence of that society.

而洪水所表达的信息是,当人类毁掉了社会的道德根基，当人类变得暴力，残忍，这都会危及到人类社会的存在。

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But through technique alone to the extensity even existence cannot be found alone There isn't any or many or much meaning maybe limited cases I don't care.

当时仅仅通过技术,连存在都难以实现,如果这样,有技术也没有什么意义了,或许我举的例子不多。

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But to speak of an intentional structure as a center is not at all the same thing as to speak of an intending person, author, being, or idea that brought it into existence, because that's extraneous.

但是讲到一个作为中心的意向性结构,与讲到一个创造它的人，作者，存在，或概念是完全不同的，因为那是外来的。

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Movements, organizations, societies whole newspapers came into existence, magazines came into existence to either eradicate something, to change something, or to build something.

运动,组织,社团,整个报纸业的诞生,以及杂志的诞生,无论是根除什么东西,改变什么东西,或者建立什么东西

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The two main ones involve the existence of an unconscious, unconscious motivation, and the notion of unconscious dynamics or unconscious conflict which lead to mental illnesses, dreams, slips of the tongue and so on.

这两个观点涉及了无意识动机的存在,以及导致心理疾病，梦境，口误等心理过程的,无意识动力或无意识冲突的概念。

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Every creature, he says, has a built-in desire to preserve itself, to persevere in its own existence, to continue in its own steady state you might say, and to resist invasion or encroachment by others.

他说，任何一个生物都生而具有,保护自己的本能，保护自己的存在，延续自己稳定的状态，抵抗外界的侵犯。

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Or you could use the "is there" question to ask about the existence of something more abstract

另外，你也可以使用“Is there”问句来询问更为一些抽象的事情是否存在。

Is there 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

There will be to express the future existence or an anticipated existence of something.

here will be 来表示某些事物在将来会存在或在预期中会存在。

There is 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

How do we prove the existence of things we can't see or hear or taste and so forth?

我们如何能证明那些,我们无法依靠五感感知的事物呢

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So the problem of existence through time,or persistence through time, shouldn't be called the problem of personal identity,but just the problem of identity.

所以积年累月下来存在的问题，就不该叫做个人认同感的问题，而仅是认同感的问题。

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We've spent the last week and a half or so, maybe a bit more, two weeks, talking about arguments for the existence of the soul.

我们已经花了一周半,也许还多点,两周吧,来讨论证明灵魂存在的论证

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When I do my best to imagine some kind of existence that would be desirable or attractive forever, it just doesn't work. It becomes a nightmare.

当我尽力想象一种,令人永远期望迷恋的存在时，根本想象不出，总是变成恶梦。

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And so he concluded, "I knew that I was a substance, the whole essence or nature of which is to think, and that for its existence, there is no need of any place nor does it depend on any material thing.

因此,他总结到,"我知道我是个实体,是思考主体的本质或本性,而这种思考主体的存在,无需任何空间,也不依赖于任何有形实体

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