exist

表示某物确实存在、具有现实性，通常作不及物动词使用。

💡 记忆钩子

把某物想象成“站在现实里”：只要它被立在现实中，它就 exist；这个概念既可指人或物实际存在，也可指问题、可能性等抽象事物真实存在。

📝 学习建议

先掌握“某物存在”这一核心意思，再注意它通常不直接带宾语；不要把 exist 简单等同于“生活”或“居住”。

📖 中文释义

verb

core 存在；真实存在

📖 表示某人、某物或某种抽象情况确实存在于现实中，而不是只存在于想象或说法里。

💡 常用“事物 + exist”说明某物存在，也可用“exist in + 某范围”说明它存在于哪里或哪种条件中。它通常是不及物动词，不能直接接名词作宾语；中文里的“存在着”不必逐字译成被动或进行时。

intransitive stative

Small differences exist between the two versions.

这两个版本之间存在一些小差异。

A real solution may exist, but we have not found it yet.

可能确实存在一个解决办法，只是我们还没有找到。

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📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 2 组

have an existence, be extant

同义词集: exist be

Is there a God?

下位: coexist, cohabit, come, consist, distribute, dwell, endanger, flow, hold, imperil, inhabit, jeopardise, jeopardize, lie, lie in, menace, obtain, peril, prevail, threaten

support oneself; ;

同义词集: exist survive live subsist

he could barely exist on such a low wage

Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?

Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day

下位: breathe, drift, freewheel

🌳 词源

来自法语和拉丁语，词源与“站立”有关，原始意象可以理解为“站出来、立在现实中”。

From French exister, from Latin existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist, appear, arise”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”); see stand. Compare assist, consist, desist, insist, persist, resist. Cognate with Spanish existir, French exister, Italian esistere, German existieren.

🔄 变式

- imperat existed 1st_sg existedst archaic existest archaic existeth archaic existing present exists present

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