Picture the bare fact that something is there at all — before you ask what it is like, you ask whether it is. Existence names that first fact. Turn it on a person and something shifts: to call someone's life an existence is to say it is barely more than being there, which is why the word so often arrives with a hard adjective.
可以想成：一件事最起碼的那個事實——還沒問它是什麼樣子，先問它在不在。existence 講的就是這個「在」。但把它用在人身上時，味道會變：說某人過的是一種 existence，等於在說那日子勉強只算活著。這也是為什麼這個字在描述生活時，前面幾乎總是跟著一個沉重的形容詞。
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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
existencenoun/ɛɡˈzɪs.təns/
- 1
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
- In order to destroy evil, we must first acknowledge its existence.
- Fortunate it is for the tranquillity of the new-born infant, if he have any turn for philosophy, that he understands none of the nonsense consecrated by old usage to the commencement of existence.
- 2
Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。