(adj.) having existence or being or actuality; 'an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient'; 'much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran' .
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双语例句
Whatever we conceive, we conceive to be existent. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
And thus, though every impression and idea we remember be considered as existent, the idea of existence is not derived from any particular impression. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
I paint them out to myself as existent at present, with the same qualities and relations, that I formerly knew them possessed of. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
The idea of existence, then, is the very same with the idea of what we conceive to be existent. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
To reflect on any thing simply, and to reflect on it as existent, are nothing different from each other. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither encreases nor diminishes. 戴维·休谟.人性论.