What is clear is that all sorts of government issues—education, health-insurance portability, worker retraining—are no longer just bonuses to already prosperous lives but existential requirements.
人们清楚的是，政府的各种问题——教育、医疗保险的可携性、职工再培训——不再只是富裕生活的额外好处，而是一种基本生存需求。
Scientific publishers routinely report profit margins approaching 40% on their operations at a time when the rest of the publishing industry is in an existential crisis.
当其他出版商陷入生存危机之际，科学出版公司的运营利润率却如往常一样接近40%。
Does this mean procrastination is an existential issue?
这是否意味着拖延是一个存在主义的问题？
I introduced the concept of existential risk only in 2001.
2001年我才提出存在风险这个概念。
What is different about today's discussions of existential risks?
那么这和我们今天讨论的存在风险有何不同？
I feel compelled to write about procrastination as an existential issue.
我觉得不得不将拖延作为一个存在主义的问题来写。
Bostrom: The wrong kinds of enhancements constitute a kind of existential threat.
博斯特罗姆：错误的增强构成了对生存的威胁。
Consequently, it is not an absurd novelist addressing us, but an existential novelist.
因此，向我们讲话的不是一个荒谬的小说家，而是一个存在主义小说家。
Rather, people share similar emotional reactions when faced with existential thoughts.
相反，人们面对存在主义思想时有着相似的情感反应。
The European: And what effect might that have on the probability of existential risk?
《欧洲人》：那会对存在风险的出现概率有什么影响？
With a bit of luck, most of us will not find ourselves in such existential situations.
好在我们还有那么一点运气，我们中的大多数人不会发现自己也会碰到这样有关生死存亡的局面。
It was the most pure and stark of several films about characters who drifted in existential limbo.
在数部角色同样游离失魂的电影里，《奇遇》最为纯粹而鲜明。
Bostrom: My focus has been on existential risks, which are at the far end of the severity spectrum.
博斯特罗姆：我的研究重点是存在风险，它是严重程度最高的一种风险。
Is the Trial an existential investigation of the self, a proto-sci-fi yarn or a philosophical comedy?
《审判》是自我的生存调查，还是一个原科幻的奇闻漫谈，还是一个哲学喜剧？
But the Financial Times is not facing the "existential crisis" that confronts some other newspapers, Mr. Ridding said.
但是《金融时报》并没有面临其他一些报纸所遭遇的“生存危机”，李尔庭说。
I cannot fathom why developers write existential checks in the way I show below, but since they do, I will discuss it.
我无法理解开发人员为何用下方所示方式编写存在检查(existential check)，但是因为他们这样做了，所以我们就来讨论它。
For centuries, Japanese authors, poets, and artists have mulled over the existential instability of their island life.
几个世纪以来，日本作家，诗人和艺术家们都在思考这种不安定的岛屿生活。
We may love our kids in an existential way equally; we would die to save all of them, and we are totally invested in them.
我们可能对他们的存在给予同样的关切；无论对哪个孩子，我们都愿意不顾生命去救他，付出所有去养育他。
Israel, on the other hand, has a permanent and perhaps existential interest in finding a way to get along with its neighbours.
而另一方面，以色列却对寻求与邻国和平共处有永久的、或许是事关国家存亡的利益。
As the potential for existential risks increases, we must be careful to examine the possible consequences of technological innovation.
随着存在风险发生几率的增加，我们必须认真检验技术革新带来的可能后果。
Additionally, the existential nature of the XQuery general comparison predicates requires attention when you express a "between" condition.
另外，当表达“between”条件时，需要注意XQuery一般比较谓词的存在本质。
When people ask God to give them a sign, they're often at a standstill, a fork in the road, paralyzed in a critical moment of existential ambivalence.
当人们请求上帝给与指引的时候，他们通常处于一个停顿状态，一个分岔路口，被困在存在矛盾心理的一个关键时刻。
The first, existential view goes back to the EU's roots. The founders thought European co-operation was good for its own sake, since it would prevent war.
第一种存在主义观点可以追溯到欧盟的起源，那些创始者认为欧洲的合作因其能够避免战争而对自身有益。
“Al Gore calls global warming an existential risk to humanity, yet it hasn’t prompted him to change his diet or even mention vegetarianism, ” he complained.
艾尔•戈尔称全球暖化为影响人类生死存亡的危机，但这并没有促使他改变饮食，或提及素食。
Science involves confronting our "absolute stupidity." That kind of stupidity is an existential fact, inherent in our efforts to push our way into the unknown.
科学让我们直面自己的“绝对愚蠢”，这种愚蠢是存在的事实，先天存在于推动我们进入未知的努力之中。
It is a chance to come to terms with the existential fragility that is overlooked in most of our waking hours and that must be faced even by the greatest among us.
这是一个机会，帮助我们安然接受生存的脆弱，我们在清醒的时间里总是忽视它，然而甚至我们之中最伟大的人也必须面对它。
An existential risk is something that could either cause the extinction of intelligent life or the permanent destruction of the potential for future desirable development.
存在风险是指可能引起智慧生物灭绝，或对未来发展潜力造成永久性破坏的风险。
While technically a cyborg, the heartless lumberjack of Oz did wrestle with a common existential dilemma faced by robots: the desire to feel. (Well, that and the desire to combat rust.)
虽然在技术意义上来说，铁皮人这个奥兹国(Oz)的伐木工只是个半机械人，但他和机器人一样面对着一个尴尬问题：与防锈一样重要的对感情的渴望。
While technically a cyborg, the heartless lumberjack of Oz did wrestle with a common existential dilemma faced by robots: the desire to feel. (Well, that and the desire to combat rust.)
虽然在技术意义上来说，铁皮人这个奥兹国(Oz)的伐木工只是个半机械人，但他和机器人一样面对着一个尴尬问题：与防锈一样重要的对感情的渴望。
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