extant

英 [ekˈstænt]

美 [ekˈstænt]

adj.  尚存的; 现存的

TOEFLGRETEM8

BNC.15756 / COCA.14599

牛津词典

adj.

• 尚存的；现存的
  still in existence
  1. extant remains of the ancient wall
     尚存的古城墙遗迹

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 尚存的;现存的
  If something isextant, it is still in existence, in spite of being very old.
  1. Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant...
     这个文本仍有两份14世纪手抄本存世。
  2. The oldest extant document is dated 1492.
     现存最古老的文献出自1492年。

双语例句

• This book is a treasure both for its beauty and for being the only copy extant.
  此书刊印精美，且为孤本，弥足矜贵。
• It is the extant and earliest monograph on dietetic treatment.
  这是现存最早的专着和饮食治疗。
• Family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms.
  双子叶开花植物科认为原始的现存的被子植物。
• They are extant in the original Greek and in a Latin version.
  他们是在现存的原始希腊和拉丁的版本。
• Judith is certainly one of the very best extant specimens of old Jewish story-telling, and forms a worthy companion-piece to Tobit, which it surpasses in vividness of style.
  朱迪思无疑是其中一个很最好的标本，现存的旧犹太人讲故事，形成了一个值得同伴一块来Tobit回归，它超越了在生动的风格。
• It contains the earliest documents extant on the life, teaching, crucifixion, and resurrection of jesus.
  它包含着现存的关于耶稣的生平，教导，受难和复活的最早文献。
• Extant manuscripts; specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk-Edward Clodd.
  现存的手稿；在现存的野蛮风俗中发现的绘画艺术的标本&爱德华·克劳蒂。
• The oldest extant document is dated 1492.
  现存最古老的文献出自1492年。
• A vague trace of the cosmology of this time may also be discerned in extant classics.
  从古文献中还能找到这一时期宇宙观的若干遗迹。
• Confucius's family, the Kongs, has the longest recorded still extant pedigree in the world today.
  孔子的姓氏，“孔”拥有最长的谱系记录并仍然现存在当今世界上。