fundamentally
She has a conception of people as being basically good.她认为人性本善。
The party's principles are basically egalitarian.这个党的基本原则是人人平等。
The plots of his books are basically all the same.他的书情节基本上都一样。
She's made one or two slips - mainly spelling errors - but it's basically well written.她犯了一两个小错误——主要是拼写错误——不过基本上写得很不错。
It was basically a selfish act, though no doubt a sophist would argue that it was done for the general good.这基本上是一种自私的行为，但是诡辩家无疑会争辩说，这样做是为了大众的利益。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Essential or necessary
a man's gotta do what a man's gotta doidiom
baked in
basis
be a question of doing somethingidiom
box ticking
business-critical
elemental
hang
hang on/upon something
have occasion to do somethingidiom
if need beidiom
if/when push comes to shoveidiom
meat and potatoesidiom
necessary
necessary evil
necessitate
owe
symbiosis
symbiotic
symbiotically

Examples of basically

basically
The party's electorate basically resembles the complexion of society.
Most of the fundamental changes of which agriculture is but a symptom took place while people were still basically foragers.
Those for pure loss systems include basically the probability for a new arrival to be lost.
A random-access list is basically a sequence of perfect leaf trees of increasing height.
Basically, the specialization technique will consist on specialization of rules by removing and reordering predicates.
More than 70 % of the respondents felt that most people were basically dishonest.
Basically, farmers and businessmen are opposed to green taxes because they increase production costs and are burdensome since they create uncertainty about future tax levels.
This product structure will be crucial to our arguments (it basically endows our system with the structure of a hypergraph).
This is unfortunate since the oocyst is basically a dormant stage, and the activities of many enzymes of interest would be expected to be low.
Except for the latter, the articles basically follow a rather uniform structure.
The aforementioned pathological observations clearly indicate that the disease basically affects the arterial wall and has preference for middle-sized and smaller muscular arteries.
Here we find relocated, basically, the aspect of assimilation.
Our ethicist in this case would be well advised not to consider this as basically a case of research ethics.
Assessments of the initial plausibility of such theories basically involve ascertaining whether they are the products of sound abductive reasoning.
My only purpose here is to point out that such changes are basically what we would normally call a social revolution.
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