existing是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 现存的， 已有的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'In the first place, what is liberalism, speaking generally, but an attack (whether mistaken or reasonable, is quite an-other question) upon the existing order of things?
-- Then my 'fact' consists in this, that RUS-SIAN liberalism is not an attack upon the existing order of things, but an attack upon the very essence of things them-selves indeed, on the things themselves; not an attack on the Russian order of things, but on Russia itself.
-- 'I must also admit,' said the prince, 'that I have not seen much, or been very far into the question; but I cannot help thinking that you are more or less right, and that Russian liberalism that phase of it which you are considering, at least really is sometimes inclined to hate Russia itself, and not only its existing order of things in general.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A month before Nekhludoff would have argued that he was powerless to change the existing order of things; that he was not managing the estate, and living and receiving his income far away from the estate, would feel more or less at ease.
-- The only aim of the courts is to preserve the existing state of things, and for this reason they persecute and kill all those who are above the common level and who wish to raise it as well as those who are below it."
-- "I cannot agree with you that the aim of courts is to support the existing order of things.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you and wildly incredible! and yet even now there are existing circumstances to point that way.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Certainly, under existing conditions, ten men, at the most, ought to be enough."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the new, superfine bliss, a peace superseding knowledge, there was no I and you, there was only the third, unrealised wonder, the wonder of existing not as oneself, but in a consummation of my being and of her being in a new one, a new, paradisal unit regained from the duality.
-- "He is the perfectly subjected being, existing almost like a criminal.
-- He was to her the most crucial instance of the existing world, the ne plus ultra of the world of man as it existed for her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The existing saurians, which include all such reptiles as lizards, crocodiles, and alligators, even the largest and most formidable of their class, are but feeble imitations of their mighty sires, the animals of ages long ago.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connexion and without hope.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He tried at parting to give his hand in frankness to the existing Flora not the vanished Flora, or the mermaid but Flora wouldn't have it, couldn't have it, was wholly destitute of the power of separating herself and him from their bygone characters.
-- 'Dear Arthur force of habit, Mr Clennam every way more delicate and adapted to existing circumstances I must beg to be excused for taking the liberty of this intrusion but I thought I might so far presume upon old times for ever faded never more to bloom as to call with Mr F.'s Aunt to congratulate and offer best wishes, A great deal superior to China not to be denied and much nearer though higher up!'
-- But there were circumstances attending my ha slight knowledge of Mr Clennam (it was very slight), which,' here Mr Dorrit became extremely grave and impressive, 'would render it highly indelicate in Mr Clennam to ha to seek to renew communication with me or with any member of my family under existing circumstances.
-- It is as much as to state not that I wish to press it or even recall it, for it is of no use now, and my only wish is to make the best of existing circumstances that from the first to the last I always objected to this match of yours, and at a very late period yielded a most unwilling consent to it.'
-- 'The dear little thing,' said Flora, 'having gone off perfectly limp and white and cold in my own house or at least papa's for though not a freehold still a long lease at a peppercorn on the morning when Arthur foolish habit of our youthful days and Mr Clennam far more adapted to existing circumstances particularly addressing a stranger and that stranger a gentleman in an elevated station communicated the glad tidings imparted by a person of name of Pancks emboldens me.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the separate subject of the Greenland or right-whale, he is the best existing authority.
-- When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks, jaws, ribs, and vertebr脙娄, all characterized by partial resemblances to the existing breeds of sea-monsters; but at the same time bearing on the other hand similar affinities to the annihilated antichronical Leviathans, their incalculable seniors; I am, by a flood, borne back to that wondrous period, ere time itself can be said to have begun; for time began with man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Sowerberry, who had a good deal of taste in the undertaking way, was much struck by the novelty of this idea; but, as it would have been compromising her dignity to have said so, under existing circumstances, she merely inquired, with much sharpness, why such an obvious suggestion had not presented itself to her husband's mind before?
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there were other causes of repugnance; causes which, though still existing, and existing to an equal degree in both instances, I had myself endeavoured to for-get, because they were not immediately before me.
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