| 释义 |
non-eˈxisting, ppl. a.
[non- 6.]
= prec. A.
1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) II. lx. 446 Non-existing phantoms..are pointed to as realities. 1826Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. x. 223 Was not this a most absurd difficulty? To have written a charade upon a non-existing word! 1897Westm. Gaz. 25 May 7/3 He treated evidence which was not forthcoming as non-existing. |