She had died so many years before him that local tradition noted very little of her existence.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

The message of the flood story also seems to be that when humans destroy the moral basis of society, when they are violent or cruel or unkind, they endanger the very existence of that society.

而洪水所表达的信息是,当人类毁掉了社会的道德根基，当人类变得暴力，残忍，这都会危及到人类社会的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

However dimly that light came through to you, suffering so acutely from the rough denial of the very existence of American ideals, part of it must have come through American delineation of American characters.

不管遇到何种艰险，哪怕翻山越岭,哪怕趟水滚沙，这些都需要,生动的角色来表现出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Mister Rodney says he was surprised that this poet who came,in his words, from a very well-heeled New England existence, could move him, a Jamaican immigrant man.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Machiavelli's preference for these extreme situations expresses his belief that only in moments of great crisis, where the very existence of a state is at risk, does human nature truly reveal itself.

马奇亚维利偏好,这类极端的情势,表述出他相信,仅在重大危机的当头，当一国的存亡面临考验之时，人类的本性才会真正显现出来。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

And so the very same moment will be the end of my body, the end of my existence,the end of my personhood.

这一刻就是我肉体的灭亡，我的存在的停止，我作为人的消亡。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And the relevance of that is investors have presupposed throughout the existence of these two entities that the government would be very hesitant to let them go down.

这就使得,投资者的前提是,在这两家公司的运营期内,政府会很犹豫,让他们倒闭。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

owes his very existence to the laws.

公民的存在要归功于法律。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选