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The author gives two existence theorems for the Sturm-Liouville boundary value problem (1) \({\mathcal L}u=f(x,u)\), \(\alpha_ 0 u(0)-\beta_ 0 u'(0)=0\), \(\alpha_ 1 u(1)+\beta_ 1 u'(1)=0\), where \({\mathcal L}u=- (p(x)u')'+q(x)u\in C'\), \(q\in C\), \(p(x)>0\), \(q(x)\geq 0\) and \(\alpha_ 0,\beta_ 0,\alpha_ 1,\beta_ 1\geq 0\), \(\alpha_ 0+\beta_ 0,\alpha_ 1+\beta_ 1>0\). Theorem A. Let \(g(x)\equiv 0\). If there are \(R>r>0\), \(a(x),b(x)>0\) and \(h(x)\geq 0\) (\(\not\equiv 0\)) such that (i) \(f(x,u)\geq\lambda(a)a(x)u+h(x)\), \(\forall| u|\geq R\), (ii) \(| f(x,u)|\leq\lambda(b)b(x)| u|\), \(\forall| u|\leq r\), then (1) has at least one nontrivial solution. Theorem B. If there are \(R>r>0\), \(a(x),b(x)>0\) such that (i) \(f(x,u)\geq\lambda(a)a(x)u+h(u)\), \(\forall | u| \geq R\), (ii) \(| f(x,u)|\leq\lambda(b) b(x)| u|\), \(\forall| u| \leq r\), where \(h(u)\) satisfies \(\varliminf_{| u|\to\infty} h(u)=+\infty\), then (1) has at least one solution.