The law has no separate existence.

法律并不是孤立存在的。

youdao

The atom is the smallest particle of an element that can have a separate existence of take part in a chemical reaction.

原子是元素的最小粒子，它能单独存在或参与化学反应。

youdao

When the boys arrived, they were housed in separate cabins and, for the first week, did not know about the existence of the other group.

当孩子们到达的时候，他们住进了单独的小屋里。而且在第一个星期中，他们并不知道还有另外一组人的存在。

youdao

I believe the attempts to establish the existence of a soul, an immaterial object, the house of consciousness separate and distinct from the body, I think those arguments fail.

我认为,无论是试图证明,灵魂作为一种非物质的东西,而存在,还是证明心灵,这个意识的处所,独立于肉体,我认为这些论证都不成立

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Well, there are the various parts of our physical body, but there's also our soul. Remember, as I said, in introducing the Phaedo, Plato doesn't so much argue for the existence of something separate, the soul, as presuppose it.

肉体由许多不同的部件组成,但是同样也有灵魂,我在介绍斐多篇的时候,提到柏拉图并没有花大力气,去辩证肉体之外存在个什么东西,他直接默认了灵魂的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

In contrast to Christians, Confucians do not conceive of the embryo as having a separate existence, and so believe that birth is the beginning of life.

ECONOMIST: Stem cell research

Second Life, as its name implies, is a virtual world in which members create an avatar and then use that character to live out a separate existence.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | Second Life 'child abuse' claim

In the ancient world, the 'gods' were rarely regarded as supernatural beings with discrete personalities, living a totally separate metaphysical existence.

NPR: Karen Armstrong: Myths and the Modern World