勉強撐著的生活
把「只是在那裡」用在人的日子上：不談過得好不好，只剩下活著這件事本身，語氣因此沉重。
way of life · noun · B2
A way of living, especially one that is hard and unhappy.
生活
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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。From the picture
Also in this word
existence; being · noun · B2
The fact of being real or being present in the world.
存在
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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)
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。