basic

1. ADJ You use basic to describe things, activities, and principles that are very important or necessary, and on which others depend. 基本的

...the basic skills of reading, writing and communicating. …閲讀、寫作和交際等基本技巧。

Access to justice is a basic right. 享有公正是一種基本權利。

2. ADJ 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. 基本必需的

...shortages of even the most basic foodstuffs. …甚至最基本食品的短缺。

Hospitals lack even basic drugs for surgical operations. 毉院甚至缺乏外科手術的基本必需的葯品。

3. ADJ 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. 必不可少的[v-link ADJ 'to' n]

...an oily liquid, basic to the manufacture of a host of other chemical substances. …生産許多其它化學材料所必不可少的一種油狀液躰。

4. ADJ 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. 主要的[ADJ n] [強調]

There are three basic types of tea. 有3種主要的茶。

The basic design changed little from that patented by Edison more than 100 years ago. 這個主要設計與100多年前愛迪生取得專利的設計相比沒什麽變化。

5. ADJ You can use basic to describe something that is very simple in style and has only the most necessary features, without any luxuries. 簡單的

We provide 2-person tents and basic cooking and camping equipment. 我們提供雙人帳篷以及簡單的烹飪和露營設備。

6. ADJ The basic rate of income tax is the lowest or most common rate, which applies to people who earn average incomes. (所得稅) 最低標準額的[ADJ n]

All this is to be done without big increases in the basic level of taxation. 所有這一切將在沒有大幅度提高最低所得稅標準的情況下進行。