喜樂美語
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    aB2

    /ɪɡˈzɪstɪŋ/

    Already there and being used now, rather than new or planned.

    現有的

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

You can picture 'existing' as a label you stick on the thing that is already here right now — it is already in place and being used, as opposed to something new that hasn't been made yet, or something only planned for the future.

可以想成：existing 就像貼在「現在已經在這裡、已經在用」的東西上的一張標籤——它已經就位、正在運作，用來跟「…更多收起可以想成：existing 就像貼在「現在已經在這裡、已經在用」的東西上的一張標籤——它已經就位、正在運作，用來跟「全新的、還沒做出來的」或「只是計畫中、還沒實現的」東西做對比。所以講 existing system（現有的系統）時，重點是「它早就在那裡了，不是新的、也不是未來才有的」。

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。

existingadj/ɪɡˈzɪstɪŋ/

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    That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.

    • Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
    • In his favour, Beeching declared that he supported carrying on with the existing modernisation projects, but that the rest of the business needed root and branch reform.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。