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ADJ-GRADED
根本的；首要的；主要的
You use basic to describe things, activities, and principles that are very important or necessary, and on which others depend.
例句
One of the most basic requirements for any form of angling is a sharp hook.
不管以什么方式釣魚，有一個鋒利的魚鉤都是最基本的要求之一。
...the basic skills of reading, writing and communicating.
基本的讀寫和交流技巧
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ADJ-GRADED
基本的；起碼的
Basic goods and services are very simple ones which every human being needs. You can also refer to people's basic needs for such goods and services.
例句
...shortages of even the most basic foodstuffs...
最基本食物的短缺
Hospitals lack even basic drugs for surgical operations.
醫院連最基本的外科手術藥物也沒有。
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ADJ-GRADED
基礎的；必要的
If one thing is basic to another, it is absolutely necessary to it, and the second thing cannot exist, succeed, or be imagined without it.
例句
...an oily liquid, basic to the manufacture of a host of other chemical substances...
制造許多其他化學物質所必需的油性液體
There are certain ethical principles that are basic to all the great religions.
某些道德原則在所有主要宗教中都是必不可少的。
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ADJ
根本的；最重要的
You can use basic to emphasize that you are referring to what you consider to be the most important aspect of a situation, and that you are not concerned with less important details.
例句
There are three basic types of tea...
茶主要分為三種。
The basic design changed little from that patented by Edison more than 100 years ago...
其本質設計和100多年前愛迪生的專利設計相差無幾。
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ADJ-GRADED
最簡單的；最基本的；最樸實的
You can use basic to describe something that is very simple in style and has only the most necessary features, without any luxuries.
例句
We provide 2-person tents and basic cooking and camping equipment.
我們提供雙人帳篷和最基本的炊具以及露營裝備。
...the extremely basic hotel room.
陳設極簡單的旅館房間
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ADJ
（價格、工資等）基本的
Basic is used to describe a price or someone's income when this does not include any additional amounts.
例句
...an increase of more than twenty per cent on the basic pay of a typical coalface worker...
普通采煤工人的底薪上浮超過20％
The basic retirement pension will go up by ￡7.95 a week...
基本退休金每周將增加7.95英鎊。
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ADJ
（所得稅率）最低標準的，基本的
The basic rate of income tax is the lowest or most common rate, which applies to people who earn average incomes.
例句
All this is to be done without big rises in the basic level of taxation.
所有這些都必須在未大幅度提高稅收起征點的前提下完成。
...a basic-rate taxpayer.
適用最低標準稅率的納稅人