Despite descriptions from explorers and even skins, Western science rejected the existence of such a creature, viewing it as nothing more than a fantastical chimera of real animals.

尽管来自探险家的描述很详细，但是西方科学仍然拒绝承认这种生物的存在，仅仅视之为假想的怪兽。

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It meant an annihilation of the Will, a release from individuated existence from the prison of being oneself and dissolution into the all-embracing bliss of nothingness.

这就意味着意志的湮灭，从个体存在的监狱中释放，并溶解在包容一切的虚无之风中。

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But does that insult to existence, that flat denial in which it is plunged come from the fact that it has no meaning?

但是，这对存在的侮辱，一股脑的完全否定，真的是因为生命没有意义吗？

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Three legislators were absent from the vote. It is the first time a government is ousted since the country came to existence, after the breakup of the former Czechoslovakia in 1993.

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However dimly that light came through to you, suffering so acutely from the rough denial of the very existence of American ideals, part of it must have come through American delineation of American characters.

不管遇到何种艰险，哪怕翻山越岭,哪怕趟水滚沙，这些都需要,生动的角色来表现出来。

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It is a miserable existence which can sap energy and self-confidence, it can lead to exclusion from mainstream society and ordinary pursuits, to alienation and to marginalisation.

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But the existence of that business and the turnover from it increases the potential fine that the EU might levy for playing around with Windows and IE.

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