1. The oldest extant document is dated 1492. 现存最古老的文件追溯到1492年。
2. The body of extant scholarship on Griffith was so tiny that it could all be read in a day. 现存的关于格里菲斯的学术论文太少了，一天之内就能读完。
3. A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides. 一份名为 L 的中世纪手稿包含了希腊剧作家欧里庇得斯所有现存的十八部悲剧。
4. The number of extant manuscripts, however few, really does not allow scholars to infer how many ancient Latin manuscripts of a work survived to the ninth, the twelfth, or even the fifteenth century. 现存的手稿，不论数量多么少，也不能让学者推断一部作品的古代拉丁手稿有多少存活到了九、十二，甚至是十五世纪。
