exist invt. 存在于
exist as以…形式(或形态)存在，作为…而存在，
1.The apartheid system which enshrined racism in law still existed.
以法律形式保护种族主义的种族隔离制度依然存在着。
2.This is a side of Alan that I never knew existed.
我以前从来不知道艾伦还有这样的一面。
3.It seems highly unlikely that she ever existed.
看来很有可能压根儿就没有过她这么个人。
4.For example, the Rio Grande pueblos already existed when the United States acquired sovereignty over New Mexico in 1848.
例如，当美国在1848年获得新墨西哥的主权时，大草原就已经存在了。
5.The worst of all is the implication that at some point there existed something halfway between a chimp and a human.
最糟糕的是，这暗示着在某一时刻，在黑猩猩和人类之间存在着某种东西。
6.The old rules have to be revised because they only applied to the circumstances that existed when they were made a hundred years ago.
旧的规则必须修改，因为它们只适用于一百年前制定规则时存在的情况。
7.The Visas Mantis program already existed by then.
“螳螂签证”在此之前就已存在了。
8.It has existed for just a few years.
它只存在了几年。
9.The prediction was that an element with the same atomic number existed somewhere, but it just hadn't been found yet.
据预测，某个地方存在一种原子序数相同的元素，但它还没有被发现。