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单词 basic
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basic
(bsɪk )
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1+
You use basic to describe things, activities, and principles that are very important or necessary, and on which others depend.
One of the most basic requirements for any form of angling is a sharp hook.
...the basic skills of reading, writing and communicating.
...the basic laws of physics.
Access to justice is a basic right.
Synonyms: fundamental, main, key, essential  
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1+
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.
...shortages of even the most basic foodstuffs.
Hospitals lack even basic drugs for surgical operations.
...the basic needs of food and water.
Synonyms: vital, needed, important, key  
3. adjective B1+
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.
...an oily liquid, basic to the manufacture of a host of other chemical substances. [+ to]
There are certain ethical principles that are basic to all the great religions. [+ to]
Synonyms: essential, central, key, vital  
4. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1+
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. [emphasis]
There are three basic types of tea.
The basic design changed little from that patented by Edison more than 100 years ago.
The basic point is that sanctions cannot be counted on to produce a sure result.
Synonyms: main, key, essential, primary  
5. adjective B1+
You can use basic to describe something that is very simple in style and has only the most necessary features, without any luxuries.
We provide 2-person tents and basic cooking and camping equipment.
...the extremely basic hotel room.
Synonyms: plain, simple, classic, ordinary  
6. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Basic is used to describe a price or someone's income when this does not include any additional amounts.
...an increase of more than twenty per cent on the basic pay of a typical worker.
The basic retirement pension will go up by £1.95 a week.
The basic price for a 10-minute call is only £2.49.
Synonyms: lowest, starting, lowest level  
7. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
The basic rate of income tax is the lowest or most common rate, which applies to people who earn average incomes.
All this is to be done without big rises in the basic level of taxation.
...a basic-rate taxpayer.
Collocations:
basic commodity
Polymers are more of a basic commodity with a lower value.
Houston Chronicle
Production of rice, the basic commodity for food security, has been increasing.
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Prices of basic commodities are rising monthly along with despair.
Times, Sunday Times
He voiced his concern well before last week's reports of huge price rises in basic commodities.
Times, Sunday Times
Even the most basic commodities, such as food, drink, timber and textiles, had to be imported.
The Times Literary Supplement
basic component
Is fervent intercession a basic component in world evangelization?
Christianity Today
The basic component of all life, deoxyribonucleic acid consists of two strands twisted together to form a double helix structure.
Christianity Today
What are we to make of that aggrieved reaction which, while making a virtue of its own sensitivity, so clearly lacks the basic component of sympathy?
Times, Sunday Times
A basic component in machine tools at this time was gray iron castings.
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Initially, drum machines were not a regular part of the shoegazing genre but a basic component of new wave, post-punk and gothic rock.
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basic concept
This is called selection bias, a basic concept in statistical inference.
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
Upon what basic concept is insurance based?
McKenzie, James F. & Pinger, Robert R. An Introduction to Community Health (1995)
It does not require machinery and advanced technology, but it embodies the basic concept of automation.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
Some distributors inevitably ask, has the basic concept of a movie star become something of an anachronism?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
basic design
The suspension retains the same basic design but that's only because it follows the same layout as in almost every small hatchback.
Times, Sunday Times
On the downside, their more basic design has its limitations.
Times, Sunday Times
They may look the same, cost about the same and have the same basic design parameters.
Times, Sunday Times
But behind the basic design are hundreds of maths games, exercises, quizzes and a glossary to explain maths terms.
Times, Sunday Times
Improvements made to the basic design at the turn of the century gave city dwellers access to the countryside, providing a truly universal mode of transport.
Times, Sunday Times
basic equipment
I've spoken to guys out there who say it's rough and ready, with very basic equipment.
The Sun
Workers claimed people were put in areas with no basic equipment, including oxygen, hand basins and emergency call bells.
The Sun
Armed with only basic equipment, we set off to hitchhike across a continent.
Times, Sunday Times
Conceivably, an acre of corn could be grown and maintained by one person for the cost of the seed, water, fertilizer, and basic equipment.
Christianity Today
Financial penalties should be imposed on police forces that fail to save money by collaborating to buy uniforms and basic equipment, a report says today.
Times, Sunday Times
basic food
Hundreds of schools were closed for days, and bread, milk and other basic food supplies ran out.
Times, Sunday Times
All but basic food must be provided by friends, as well as medicine and clothing.
The Sun
He could survive quite easily with basic food and a roof over his head.
The Sun
They have basic food and water and are equipped with individual air purifying systems that give them up to seven hours of clean air.
The Sun
There has also been a rise in shoplifting, with police forces reporting first-time arrests of people stealing basic food.
Times, Sunday Times
basic idea
The basic idea is simple and seductive.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He is said to have first conceived the basic idea for the story in 1957 while surveying the guests on a lawn at a society wedding.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The basic idea, taken from the film and given new immediacy by the documentary footage, is gripping.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In fact, you could probably predict the outcome, given only the most basic idea of the premise.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He knew that his basic idea of football, directness and simplicity was the right one.
Leo McKinstry Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager (2006)
basic infrastructure
And we need basic infrastructure like a clean water system, functional sewers and roads and schools repaired.
The Sun
The three worst-affected countries lack the basic infrastructure - the protective gear, the quarantine wards and the trained medical staff - needed to halt the disease.
Times, Sunday Times
The same applies to water: it can be delivered through the same pipes and basic infrastructure, while still giving customers a choice of supplier.
Times, Sunday Times
Compounding this was a lack of basic infrastructure.
Times, Sunday Times
In 1996, they started working on the basic infrastructure: highway improvements, woodland clearance, parking, paths and so on.
Times, Sunday Times
basic ingredient
The basic ingredient of that grand novel are biographemes — life materials.
Times, Sunday Times
The contestants have to invent a dish whose basic ingredient will be paneer.
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In the past it was especially popular among coal miners and their families due to its basic ingredient - egg.
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It was used for food, as a fuel for lamps, and as a basic ingredient in things like medicinal ointment, bath oils, skin oils, soaps, perfumes and cosmetics.
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Pancakes are the simplest things to make from scratch with basic ingredients you'll probably already have.
The Sun
basic instinct
My instinct - my basic instinct - told me the weekend wasn't going to turn out as expected.
Times, Sunday Times
It makes overwrought manipulation seem more than a basic instinct.
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And the 28-year-old put his debut success down to basic instincts.
The Sun
A judge later described him as 'bereft of the basic instincts of commercial morality'.
Times, Sunday Times
The judge ruled he was 'bereft of the basic instincts of commercial morality'.
The Sun
basic level
At a more basic level, the dialogue rarely convinces.
Times, Sunday Times
The simulation was deemed to fail at the basic level of accurate representation.
Times, Sunday Times
It means that bodies are never free of culture, even on the most basic level.
The Times Literary Supplement
At the most basic level, the crisis starves trivia of oxygen.
Times, Sunday Times
The reason he stuck with it was because at the most basic level 'it was fun'.
Times, Sunday Times
basic liberty
That in effect makes the state the official guardian of all information, a fundamental threat to basic liberties.
Times,Sunday Times
The first gives absolute priority to certain basic liberties over all other values.
The Times Literary Supplement
Likewise, it should ask what it would mean to abandon the principle of the rule of law, as well as basic liberties.
Times,Sunday Times
He has been called upon to comment on issues such as healthcare reform, academic freedom, private vs public education, and basic liberty and freedom in the market square of ideas.
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He also dissented in policies which would seem to curtail the basic liberties of people.
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basic maintenance
Occasionally someone clears the junk mail and performs basic maintenance, but there are no signs of habitation.
Times, Sunday Times
If you do take over an established garden, rather than changing things immediately, watch the plot for a year and just do basic maintenance.
The Sun
Instead, we are attending to basic maintenance, which involves things that should never be done in an open-plan bathroom.
Times, Sunday Times
I receive a tuition-fee loan and the basic maintenance loan - to cover living costs.
Times, Sunday Times
If basic maintenance had been carried out over the years, this could have been avoided.
Times, Sunday Times
basic need
Yet ignoring this basic need damages community cohesion, economic participation and individual happiness and safety.
Times, Sunday Times
Resources are a basic need for economic development and improving living standards.
Times, Sunday Times
But the evident popularity of the course and the basic need for communication suggest that it can hardly be a bad idea.
Times, Sunday Times
And the authors of the report suggest an evolutionary behavioural link - relating to the basic need to protect territory.
Times, Sunday Times
The pleasure of it all, though, was offset by a basic need.
Times, Sunday Times
basic package
The basic package starts at 1,031pp; sharing a room and including guiding and some meals.
Times, Sunday Times
One wedding consultant offers, as its most basic package, to 'co-ordinate the core elements'.
Times, Sunday Times
Now the band offer frequent upgrades on the same basic package.
Times, Sunday Times
This exhibition offers far more than the basic package.
Times, Sunday Times
Shoppers can choose from a basic package at 24.50 a month, an unlimited broadband deal at 31.50 or a superfast connection for 38.50.
The Sun
basic premise
The basic premise of sport is that participants are there to win.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The basic premise is that a time machine has been stolen by a master criminal, who goes back in time to change history.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Its basic premise is that the system is inherently unfair.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
That very simple notion is the basic premise of one of the funniest and filthiest films of the year.
The Sun (2016)
basic provisions
Supermarkets told how basic provisions including bread and milk were selling out.
The Sun
People are going without hot meals and basic provisions after being moved from their homes.
Times, Sunday Times
Some civilians tentatively emerged from their homes in search of basic provisions.
Times, Sunday Times
They speak of a lack of basic provisions such as clean water, sanitation and electricity.
ST
Some respondents have remortgaged, become ill and stressed, or rely on others for basic provisions.
Times, Sunday Times
basic rule
In so doing, we broke a basic rule of warfare: don't go into battle unable to deal with the unexpected.
Times, Sunday Times
She can do this, but only by ignoring every basic rule of fiscal prudence.
Times, Sunday Times
Several seem to break the basic rule of fantasy, that the impossible should briefly appear probable and living.
Times, Sunday Times
The basic rule remained the 21-day time limit, with which parliament had to have intended applicants in general to comply.
Times,Sunday Times
The basic rule of maintaining a distance of 1.5 metres and the ban on mass events remain in force, however.
Times,Sunday Times
basic skill
Fewer than half of schools set aside time to teach the basic skill.
The Sun
It's not the kind of basic skill that can be taken for granted.
Times, Sunday Times
Their basic skill was the art of reading and writing.
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Numerous other games and contests involve some element of anagram formation as a basic skill.
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Then we put together a 13-week basic skills course.
Times, Sunday Times
basic structure
This is a generalisation, but illustrates the basic structure of what influences our politics.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Most organic molecules consist of a kind of basic structure of carbon atoms to which small clusters of other atoms are attached.
Youngson, Dr. Robert The Antioxidant Health Plan (1994)
And this forms the basic structure of a musical harmonic system, which may also be used to form the basis of a magical harmonic system.
Stewart, R J Music and the Elemental Psyche: A Practical Guide to Music and Changing Consciousness (1987)
Their basic structure consists of an axoneme templated by a centriole/ basal body.
Helena Soares, Bruno Carmona, Sofia Nolasco, Luís Viseu Melo, João Gonçalves 2019, 'Cilia Distal Domain: Diversity in Evolutionarily Conserved Structures', Cells
This work discusses the stiffness design requirement of the decoupler and proposes a compound flexure hinge as its basic structure.
Yao Jiang, Tiemin Li, Liping Wang, Feifan Chen 2017, 'Systematic Design Method and Experimental Validation of a 2-DOF Compliant Parallel Mechanism with Excellent Input and Output Decoupling Performances', Applied Sciences
basic technique
This meditation demonstrates the basic technique and takes just a few minutes.
The Sun
In fact, the best strikers of a ball rely on sound basic technique.
Times, Sunday Times
Photographic theory can be taught in an hour, the basic technique in a day.
Times, Sunday Times
I had a sound basic technique and method of playing that worked.
Times, Sunday Times
The basic technique of soil stabilization using vetiver consists of one or more hedgerows planted on the contour.
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basic tenet of
Critics claim that the killing is simply for pleasure, which undermines a basic tenet of conservation.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The notion of building a business as a long-term proposition is a basic tenet for the organisation.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
To have done that would have been to betray the basic tenet of their religion.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The basic tenet of our law is innocent until proven guilty.
The Sun (2014)
basic tool
A basic tool kit should include tyre levers, an inner tube, a puncture repair kit and a hand-pump.
Times,Sunday Times
Purists may moan, but visualappealis increasinglyregarded as being not just a desirable extra but a basic tool of classical-music promotion.
Times, Sunday Times
Beautiful, delicious and totally versatile raw or cooked, it's the most basic tool in a cook's armoury.
Times, Sunday Times
They are the basic tool for historical research on these ages.
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Chisel was the basic tool used to first draw incised outlines with projections to be carved at the later stage of sculpting.
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basic understanding
Then someone discovers there was a flaw in the basic understanding of the problem.
The Sun
He said he had encountered letting agents without even a basic understanding of health and safety or the rules governing deposits.
Times, Sunday Times
A basic understanding of the profession will help a novice get into auctioneering, but it won't guarantee entrance.
ST
He went as far as to doubt the existence of a basic understanding about the importance and value of trust.
Times, Sunday Times
Anyone with a basic understanding of free-market economics and history could have warned us.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 基本的
Japanese: 基本的な
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