non-existent

英 [ˌnɒn ɪɡˈzɪstənt]

美 [ˌnɑːn ɪɡˈzɪstənt]

adj.  不存在的; 不真实的

复数：non-existents　

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牛津词典

adj.

• 不存在的；不真实的
  not existing; not real
  1. a non-existent problem
     不存在的问题
  2. ‘How's your social life?’ ‘Non-existent, I'm afraid.’
     “你的社交生活如何？”“我恐怕没有社交生活。”
  3. Hospital beds were scarce and medicines were practically non-existent .
     当时医院病床紧缺，药物根本所剩无几。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 不存在的
  If you say that something isnon-existent, you mean that it does not exist when you feel that it should.
  1. Hygiene was non-existent: no running water, no bathroom...
     卫生根本谈不上：没有自来水、没有卫生间。
  2. You'll take everything you're offered yet your own generosity is virtually non-existent.
     你倒是来者不拒，照单全收，可你自己实际上却一毛不拔。

双语例句

• They have little private transport and live in areas with poor to non-existent roads.
  他们只有很少的私人运输力量，而且该贫困民地区的道路也不通畅。
• This policy, they say, is at best confused and at worst non-existent
  有人说这项政策往好里说是混乱不堪，往坏里说就是形同虚设。
• Pollution-control measures are either not strict or non-existent, leading to choking clouds of smog.
  污染控制措施，或者不严格或根本不存在，导致窒息云彩的烟雾。
• Hygiene was non-existent: no running water, no bathroom
  卫生根本谈不上：没有自来水、没有卫生间。
• Jane began to rebuild her social life which had been non-existent since her marriage
  简开始重新建立自己自结婚以来便陷于沉寂的社交生活。
• Unemployment in this part of the country is virtually non-existent.
  该国这一地区基本上不存在失业。
• Reported when trying to erase, rename or open a non-existent file.
  当尝试的时候，报告抹掉，重新命名或者开启一个非存在的文件。
• It is an error to extract a value using a non-existent key.
  试图析取从一个不存在的关键字中读取值会导致错误。
• You'll take everything you're offered yet your own generosity is virtually non-existent.
  你倒是来者不拒，照单全收，可你自己实际上却一毛不拔。
• Traceability among information elements is either limited or non-existent.
  信息要素之间的可追溯性是受限的，或不存在的。