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/ɪˈsenʃəli/
used when you are saying what is most basically true about something, after leaving out the smaller details or differences.
基本上；本質上
核心畫面
Think of someone sweeping the small stuff off a table so you can see the one thing left in the middle. The speaker knows there are details, exceptions and differences — they are choosing to set them aside and say what the thing is once you look past all that. It is a signal: what follows is the stripped-down version, not the complete one.
可以想成有人把桌上零碎的東西一把撥開，讓你看見中間剩下的那一樣。說話的人知道還有細節、還有例外、還有差異，他是「先不…更多收起
可以想成有人把桌上零碎的東西一把撥開，讓你看見中間剩下的那一樣。說話的人知道還有細節、還有例外、還有差異，他是「先不管那些」，然後告訴你撇開之後這件事到底是什麼。所以這個詞其實是個提示：接下來這句是刪到剩骨架的版本，不是完整版。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
essentiallyadv/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
- 1
In an essential way.
- Near-synonyms: actually, at bottom, at heart, basically, fundamentally, characteristically, centrally, substantially; see also Thesaurus:fundamentally
- The beaver is a social creature, not just occasionally but essentially.
- 2
In an essential way.
- A: So you're saying, in other words, that he's greedy? B: Essentially, yes, that's what I'm saying.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。