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- forming a necessary base or core; of central importance基本的, 根本的, 基础的, 核心的：
the protection of fundamental human rights
对基本人权的保护
interpretation of evidence is fundamental to the historian's craft.
解释证据是历史学家的基本功。
1.1
- affecting or relating to the essential nature of something or the crucial point about an issue至关重要的; 影响问题的本质（或关键）的; 与问题的本质（或关键）有关的：
the fundamental problem remains that of the housing shortage.
关键的问题依旧是住房短缺。
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- so basic as to be hard to alter, resolve, or overcome根深蒂固的：
the theories are based on a fundamental error.
这些理论建立在一个根深蒂固的错误之上。
(一般作fundamentals)
1- a central or primary rule or principle on which something is based根本法则, 基本原则：
two courses cover the fundamentals of microbiology.
两门课程涵盖了微生物学的基本原理。
1.1
- a fundamental note, tone, or frequency根音; 基音; 基频。
派生词
fundamentality
noun词源
late Middle English: from French fondamental, or late Latin fundamentalis, from Latin fundamentum, from fundare 'to found'.