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%。

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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。

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That's not really an existential question, or a spiritual one; mostly, it's a practical question.

这不是一个物质问题而是一个精神问题，是一个很实际的问题。

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"This threat from violent extremism, not just in Afghanistan, not just in Pakistan, but globally,is a real existential threat to freedom-loving countries.

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Politics, for him, is less a matter of prudential decisions of better and worse, than it is, you might say, an existential decision of choosing life or death.

对他来说，政治，不是关于谨慎的决定,不管是好还是坏，不如说是，一个选择生或死的必然决定。

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He thinks that the electoral law is an "existential issue" affecting all Iraqis, as well as the future of the country and should not be rushed to a vote.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Existential threats have a funny way of making people very nervous, and the long arm of the law is usually the first place to turn to when that happens.

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Shaft was an existential adventurer with a relentless libido.

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Existential threats have a way of focusing the mind.

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