essentially

1. ADV You use essentially to emphasize a quality that someone or something has, and to say that it is their most important or basic quality. 本質(zhì)上[正式] [ADV with cl/group]

It's been believed for centuries that great writers, composers, and scientists are essentially quite different from ordinary people. 幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來人們都認(rèn)爲(wèi)偉大的作家、作曲家和科學(xué)家本質(zhì)上與常人大不相同。

2. ADV You use essentially to indicate that what you are saying is mainly true, although some parts of it are wrong or more complicated than has been stated. 基本上[正式]

His analysis of urban use of agricultural land has been proved essentially correct. 他的城市對辳用土地使用的分析已經(jīng)被証明基本上正確。