A still picture could only imply the existence of time, while time in a novel passed at the whim of the reader.

"一张静止的照片只是暗示了时间的存在，而小说中的时间则随着读者的幻想而流逝。

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For a long period of time and in many parts of the country, a traveler was a welcome break in an otherwise dull existence.

很长一段时间，在美国的许多地方，旅行者是一种受欢迎的打破沉闷生活的方式。

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For a long period of time and in many parts of the country, a traveler was a welcome break in an otherwise dull existence.

很长一段时间，在美国的许多地方，旅行者是一种受欢迎的打破沉闷生活的方式。

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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.

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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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I've gone through a series of such arguments, and the one that we ended with last time was the suggestion that we need to believe in the existence of a soul in order to explain the fact that we've got free will.

我已经讲过一系列这样的论证,上次课结束时我提到的一个论证认为,我们只有相信灵魂存在,才能解释我们拥有自由意志这一事实

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In 1979, the parliament of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia met for the last time to vote itself out of existence.

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Every ounce of gold ever mined in the history of time is still in existence on the planet.

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What Western men at one time understood as the truth of existence is now only an absolutely uncertain belief.

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