Existential questions requiring religious answers still persist.

需要宗教解答的生命问题持续存在着。

"What if there's nothing left at all?" he cried, lost in some intense existential angst.

“要是什么都没了会怎样？”他大叫起来，迷失在某种强烈的攸关人类存亡的痛苦中。

Scientific publishers routinely report profit margins approaching 40% on their operations at a time when the rest of the publishing industry is in an existential crisis.

当其他出版商陷入生存危机之际，科学出版公司的运营利润率却如往常一样接近40%。

What is clear is that all sorts of government issues—education, health-insurance portability, worker retraining—arc no longer just bonuses to already prosperous lives but existential requirements.

清楚的是，政府的各种问题——教育、医疗保险的可转移性、员工再培训——不再仅仅是对已经富裕的生活的奖金，而是一种存在的需求。

What is clear is that all sorts of government issues—education, health-insurance portability, worker retraining—are no longer just bonuses to already prosperous lives but existential requirements.

人们清楚的是，政府的各种问题——教育、医疗保险的可携性、职工再培训——不再只是富裕生活的额外好处，而是一种基本生存需求。

But it is also an existential struggle.

但这也是一场生存斗争。

It would present an existential threat.

这将是对存在的威胁。

Why are these two existential checks bad?

这两个存在检查为何不好？

How is that existential dilemma to be resolved?

这个现存的困境该如何解决？

Does this mean procrastination is an existential issue?

这是否意味着拖延是一个存在主义的问题？

The city's troubles are part cyclical, part existential.

这座城市的问题部分是周期性的，部分是它本身就存在的。

I introduced the concept of existential risk only in 2001.

2001年我才提出存在风险这个概念。

It becomes a description of the existential state of Israel.

发烧成为了以色列生存状态的特征。

What is different about today's discussions of existential risks?

那么这和我们今天讨论的存在风险有何不同？

Bostrom: With trains, there was no discussion of existential risks.

博斯特罗姆：对于火车来说，不必讨论存在风险。

I feel compelled to write about procrastination as an existential issue.

我觉得不得不将拖延作为一个存在主义的问题来写。

The absence of an existential threat may have made it too comfortable.

没有威胁存在也许使它太舒坦了。

He is then seen screaming the existential question "is life a comedy?"

然后就吼出了那个关于存在的问题“生命是一个喜剧吗？”

Obviously, it is important to reduce existential risks as much as possible.

显然，尽可能降低这种存在风险至关重要。

Bostrom: The wrong kinds of enhancements constitute a kind of existential threat.

博斯特罗姆：错误的增强构成了对生存的威胁。

Consequently, it is not an absurd novelist addressing us, but an existential novelist.

因此，向我们讲话的不是一个荒谬的小说家，而是一个存在主义小说家。

Rather, people share similar emotional reactions when faced with existential thoughts.

相反，人们面对存在主义思想时有着相似的情感反应。

The European: And what effect might that have on the probability of existential risk?

《欧洲人》：那会对存在风险的出现概率有什么影响？

The two sides, both ruthless, are engaged in what they see as an existential struggle.

当事双方都很残忍且把眼前的争端看作是关乎存亡之事。

With a bit of luck, most of us will not find ourselves in such existential situations.

好在我们还有那么一点运气，我们中的大多数人不会发现自己也会碰到这样有关生死存亡的局面。

Face is important in all cultures, but in China it often rises to an existential level.

面子在任何文化中都很重要，但是在中国，面子常常是一个如同生死存亡般重要的问题。

On the other hand, centrists see a Palestinian state as an existential threat to Israel.

另一方面，以色列中间派又将巴勒斯坦建国视为对以色列的威胁。

Neoconservatives see the defeat of the zombie threat after a long, existential struggle.

新保守主义者认为：长期的生存斗争之后，最终将击败活僵尸的威胁。

This was like a bad film, quickly escalating into one of those existential angst moments.

这简直就像一部怀旧电影，很快就进入了存在主义的焦虑时刻。

That's not really an existential question, or a spiritual one; mostly, it's a practical question.

这不是一个物质问题而是一个精神问题，是一个很实际的问题。