At the same time it must be observed that an age is no less past if it existed two hundred years ago than if it existed two thousand years ago.
同时，我们必须意识到这一点：两千年前的时代决不比两百年前的时代更为过去。
Debate rages over where it might lie, if it existed at all: some say it is near Cuba, off the coast of Cornwall, near Gibraltar or in the middle of the Atlantic.
这个大陆的位置众说纷纭——如果它确实存在的话：有些人认为它靠近古巴，或者沿着康沃尔海岸，接近直布罗陀，亦或在大西洋中部。
But if none of this existed and the original story had never been made into a major motion picture, how would it all shake down?
但是如果原始电影不存在，原著还不曾登上过大银幕，那怎样新拍该片呢？
As Bill Shope, an equity analyst at JPMorgan, puts it, the music store is a "loss leader" that serves only to boost sales of the iPod. It is as if record stores existed only to sell record players.
正如摩根大通的一位权益分析师Bill Shope认为的，音乐商店仅仅是为促进iPod销售的廉价商品，仿佛唱片店的存在就是为了销售唱片播放机。
But this illustrates why our project is so important - we only found out that this language existed last year, and if we don't document the language before it dies out, it will be lost forever.
但是这正好体现了我们项目的重要性——我们去年才发现这种语言的存在，如果在它消失之前都没有记录，那会是我们永远的损失。
The church has since been renewed and if the aforementioned gravestone has ever existed in the first place it has probably been lost or destroyed.
此后教堂又被重新翻修，如果前文所说的墓碑真的存在的话，现在多半已经丢失或者被毁坏了。
If an afterlife existed, Mandy figured that for Linda it would be more of the same-cappuccinos, Chinese, films at Lincoln Center. You could do that stuff dead.
如果有来生，曼迪想琳达应该会过同样的生活——卡布·奇诺，中文，林肯中心的电影，你都可以做这些到死。
Their reason for thinking Vulcan existed was that Mercury's orbit behaved as if a more inward planet was tugging on it.
他们认为“火神星”有存在的理由，因为水星的轨迹表现出如同受到了一个更接近内层星球的拉动。
Like it or not we are the curators of the largest compilation of stories, ideas, pictures, and video that has ever existed (I like it a lot, and I bet if you're reading this you do too).
不管喜不喜欢，我们是大量故事，创意，图片和视频的管理员。(我很享受这点，我打赌你也是)。
If 'Cardenio' existed, it would redefine the concept of comparative literature.
假如《卡迪·尼奥》还存世，它将重新定义比较文学的概念。
They feel that, therefore, if time extends to the infinite past, then no moment of creation ever existed and therefore it need not be explained.
因此，他们觉得，如果时间会延伸至无穷的过去，那么就不存在创世的时刻，因此也就没有必要加以解释。
Meadows said "I couldn't believe that, going back ten years later, he had been totally forgotten in the town - it was as if he had never existed."
Meadows说“我无法相信，那件事发生10年后，他就被镇子上的人完全遗忘了，就像从来没有过这么一个人。”
It declares, rather, that even if God existed that would make no difference from its point of view.
不但如此，它主张即使上帝存在，也不会对于事态有所改变。
Now that your web site is out on the web, it would be helpful if people knew it existed!
现在你的网站已在互联网上公开，如果人们知道它的存在，它才有用！
If a difference of opinion existed on the point of the two classes of the Roman population, it was extinguished, with many other sources of heartburning, by the great Decemviral compromise.
“当时在罗马人民的两个阶级之间如果在这一点上存在着分歧意见，那么后来通过伟大的大宪官和解时代，它就连同其他不平的泉源给一并消灭了”。
If all the other problems existed... but the community was fun to be around and work with... I would have stuck it out. I would have made it work (no matter how much productivity or hair I lost).
如果所有其他问题存在……但是社区还可以相处，可以协作……我本该忠诚，我本该设法解决(不论损失多少效率和头发)。
If either explanation is true, it could reduce the chances that life ever existed on Mars.
如果某一解释是真实的，它可以减少生活曾经在火星之上存在的机会。
It will be as if I'd never existed.
好像我可以没有你还能够存在一样！
If these horses that have existed for millions of years become extinct in an era where human intelligence is so developed, then it is very disturbing.
如果存在了几百万年的马在人类智慧这么发达的年代反倒灭绝，就实在太让人揪心了。
However, if life once existed in surface environments, it is likely to have left behind a fossil record in ancient sediments now exposed at the surface.
然而，如果生命一旦在地表出现，他很有可能留下化石记录。这个记录可能是古沉积物形式保留在地表。
The question would be simple if we took it literally, egg laying animals existed far before chickens came about, So technically the egg came before the chicken.
如果我们只看字面意思问题就变得很简单了，卵生动物在鸡类之前很早就出现了，所以技术上讲是蛋先于鸡。
But if Neanderthal DNA existed in modern man's genes, he believes it will have been diluted below detectable levels.
他认为，就算穴居人dna存在于现代人基因中，也已被淡化到无法发觉的地步了。
If it does not work orderly, main chip and MCU can not work normally, which firstly causes program can not record, even existed program can not lighten PANEL, the worst is to damage electric part.
若电源部分供电不正常，则主芯片和MCU不能正常工作，首先会造成程序无法烧录，即便已有程序也不能点亮panel，严重的会损坏元器件。
What use is the concept, if it describes a state that never existed generally as a matter of historical fact? Does "something like it" arise in our lives today? Never? Sometimes? Often?
以历史事实的角度而言，形容一个从来不曾存在的状态，这样的观点有什么用处？有没有“类似这样的东西”存在于现今的生活里？还是从未出现、偶尔或常常出现？
What use is the concept, if it describes a state that never existed generally as a matter of historical fact? Does "something like it" arise in our lives today? Never? Sometimes? Often?
以历史事实的角度而言，形容一个从来不曾存在的状态，这样的观点有什么用处？有没有“类似这样的东西”存在于现今的生活里？还是从未出现、偶尔或常常出现？
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