In his 2,200-word retirement request General Sarath Fonseka says he was misled about his promotion this year to chief of defense staff, finding that he had "basically no authority."

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

They can pretty much pack it up and go home, because everyone's going to think they're ridiculous, no one will believe what they say, and it's a stupid idea anyway, is basically the gist of this conversation.

他们就可以打包回家了，因为每个人都会认为他们很荒谬，没有人会相信他们的说法，这是个很愚蠢的想法，这就是他们当时谈话的大概意思。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Gary Gilmore The serial killer Gary Gilmore basically said the pain of others gratified him and caused him no unhappiness at all.

连环杀手,基本上就说过别人的痛苦,让他很高兴，他一点都不讨厌。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I can understand that people who actually lived at that time, in the communist era, who were hurt by this system it might upset them to see young people who might have basically no knowledge about this system and didn't live in that, wearing the symbols they don't understand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Death is basically just the breaking down of the body, on the physicalist point of view, so that it no longer functions properly.

死亡从根本上说就是我们肉体的损坏,在物理主义看来,肉体再也不能正常工作了

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

No,it's not going to be that. But it does need to basically provide the common talking points so that allied leaders, allied presidents and prime ministers, have on one sheet of paper,one page, a set of common talking points that they can speak from to their people to explain why the alliance matters.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11