1·He threatened to expose the racism that existed within the police force.
他扬言要把警察内部存在的种族歧视公之于众。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·Racism is a deeply rooted prejudice which has existed for thousands of years.
种族主义是一种已存在了数千年的根深蒂固的偏见。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·The last paragraph contains an anachronism. The Holy Office no longer existed at that time.
最后一段有一个年代错误。宗教裁判所那时已不复存在了。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·Ant societies existed in something like their present form more than seventy million years ago.
蚂蚁社会大约在七千万年前就以类似现在的形式存在。
5·It might surprise you to learn that restaurants, as we know them, have only existed for a few centuries.
当你得知我们所知道的餐馆只存在了几个世纪，你可能会感到惊讶。
1·If you existed in the world of Fahrenheit 451, which book would you want to memorize?
如果你生存在这个华氏451的世界，哪本书是你想要默记的？
2·The same can be said of actual creatures which existed just yesterday in geological terms.
而它们的相同之处便能够证明真正的人类是生存在过往的地质环境中的。
3·She existed only on milk.
她只靠牛奶生存。
4·Scientists of the time knew that evolution occurred. The fossil record showed evidence of life forms that no longer existed. The question was, how did it occur?
当时的科学家知道进化的发生。化石记录表明了不再生存的生物迹象。问题是，进化是怎样发生的？
5·It is possible that life forms from Earth travelled to Mars and perhaps existed there - or the other way round.
有可能地球上的生命抵达了火星，在那生存下来，也有可能恰恰相反。