at the root of

基本解释

He argues that all of reality can be explained if readers accept that information is at the root of everything.
他认为，如果读者们能够接受信息是万物根本的理论，那么所有实际存在的事物都能找到解释。
No matter how your sleep drama is playing out, chances are there's a physical problem -- or more than one -- at the root of it.
不管你的睡眠戏剧是以何种形式表演出来的，都有一个或更多根本上的身体问题。
What lies at the root of all this is a profound division of opinion over what constitutes, or should constitute, national identity.
所有这些问题的根源是一种意义深远的关于民族认同感由何组成或者应该由何组成的意见分歧。

At the root of the sharp price decrease is reduced demand because of the economic downturn.
But if you can accept the purity of the statement I just made, it is at the root of the thing you have a solution.
但如果你能够遵从原教旨主义的方式,那么这就是你解决此问题的根本
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That's Western civilization, friends, and the Greeks are at the root of the whole thing.
这就是西方的文明,朋友们,而希腊人恰恰是这一切的源头所在
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Bad regulations are always at the root of black markets and the criminality they spawn.
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