它仿佛是开天辟地就耸立在那里，在傈僳族古老的大洪水神话中，它就已经存在了。

It seem is Open Day bi land rise like a tower in there, in li Su the big flood mythology of ancient clan in, it has existed.

youdao

在布什先生最后一次国情咨文演讲中，那七十次爆发式的掌声不过是这种倾向的最新例子，几十年前它就已经存在。

The 70 bursts of applause in Bush's final state message was just the latest example of a trend that's been building for decades.

youdao

有人说它存在于我们的大脑中完全未使用过的大片区域；然而也有人说，在大脑进化前，它就已经存在，因此它必定存在于身体的其他部位。

Some say that it is located in the huge area of our brains that are wholly unused, whereas others argue that instinct existed before the brain evolved and must therefore lie else-where in the body.

youdao

So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well I stated it, but Plato didn't state it in the dialogue, the worry that even if the soul was one of the parts even if the soul is already around before we were born, how do we know it can't come apart.

我说出来了，但柏拉图在对话里并没有说，就是一种担心,即使灵魂是组成我们的一部分,即使灵魂在我们出生前,就已经存在了，我们怎么能知道它不会瓦解呢。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选