basic question

基本解释

BASIC question facing any government is just how many people it is in charge of.
任何政府都要面临一个基本的问题：自己辖区内到底有多少人。
The aim of continuous improvement is to help you answer this basic question: how can you take control of the important facets of your life?
持续改进的目的就在于帮你回答这个基本问题：你怎样做才能控制好你生活中那些重要的因素？
We'll explain in a minute why conversion and validation happen at these phases, but first let's clear up a more basic question: What is conversion?
我们将在稍后介绍为什么转换和验证会在这些阶段出现，但是首先让我们澄清一个更基本的问题：转换是什么？

Having looked at that question we now gonna turn to the second basic question.
讨论完这个问题,我们还要看第二个基本问题。
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So, the basic question to ask is "What are we afraid of?"
要问的基本问题，我们害怕什么“
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And question number three, the basic idea of consent. Kathleen got us on to this.
至于问题三，就是征得同意的观点，凯思琳提到的。
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That leads to the basic question of why Syria would try to influence Lebanon.
NPR: The Syria-Lebanon Connection