1·Abraham Maslow described psychology as "the science of being."
亚伯拉罕•马斯洛将心理学描述为“存在科学”。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·This suggests that the rats perceived the social robot as a genuine social being.
这表明，老鼠将社交机器人视为一个真正的社交存在。
3·Man was defined as a rational being, as a social animal, an animal that can make tools, or a symbol-making animal.
人类被定义为一种理性的存在，一种群居动物，一种可以制造工具的动物，或者一种制造符号的动物。
4·If science or philosophy may gain anything from poetry, they are welcome, but that is not the reason for poetry's being.
如果科学和哲学可以从诗里得到任何东西，它们是受欢迎的，但那不是诗歌存在的原因。
5·Used metaphorically, the juxtaposed terms connote specific or essential traits of the being they refer to, introducing a mode of poetry as an almost habitual form of expression.
用比喻的方式，并列的术语隐含着它们所指称的存在的具体或本质的特征，引入了一种诗歌的模式作为习惯性的表达形式。