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EXISTENCE
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Traducere în limba română
existence s.
1. existenţă, fiinţare, vieţuire;
in existence existent, în fiinţă, (aflător) în natură;
struggle for existence luptă pentru existenţă;
to come into existence a se ivi, a apărea;
to bring into existence a produce; a da naştere (cu dat.); a crea;
to spring into existence a se naşte brusc, a se ivi brusc.
2. prezenţă, existenţă; entitate; fiinţă, vieţuitoare; tot ce există.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
“Don't you know the Doctor better,” said I, “than to suppose him conscious of your existence, when you were not before him?”
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
During the early summer, in the last days of the famine, he met Lip-lip, who had likewise taken to the woods, where he had eked out a miserable existence.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
Who did know of the existence of that letter?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I never heard of her existence till the day before yesterday.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
Existence did not taste good in his mouth.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
It may be that this strange night-existence is telling on me; but would that that were all!
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
If I had the power of recalling any one week of my existence, it should be that week—that acting week.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Such a monster has, then, really existence!
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
What I want to know, in the first place, Mr. Holmes, is, how in the world you came to hear of my existence at all.
(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)