1.位处在...下面;成为...的基础
2.【经】拥有优先于...的权利,作为优先于...的担保[抵押品]
3.【语】成为(派生语的)语根
1.to be the real or basic cause of or reason for something
1.And if scientists can unravel what underlies these biological differences, they might be able to alleviate inborn disparities.
如果科学家们能够解决造成这种生物学差异的原因，也许就能缓解人们的先天差距。
2.So perhaps this describes you, and if it does, take a look at the fear that underlies your hypercritical attitude.
也许上面描述了你的情形，如果确实如此，你就去你的吹毛求疵里看看自己害怕什么吧。
3.The suicide of an international designer who remained rooted to the dark and raw East End of his home city underlies London Fashion Week.
这位自杀的国际设计师，作品的基调依然是构成伦敦时装周基础的黑暗和伦敦东区风格。
4.This principle also underlies another rule of effective speaking: "Dress like your audience, but just a little bit better. "
这些原则也构成了另一条演讲规则的基础：“以你观众的着装为准则，但要比他们好一点点。”
5.The computing infrastructure is far better prepared to manage data in the form of source code, or the HTML that underlies this Web page.
对于管理以源代码或HTML（它是Web页面的基础）形式表示的数据，计算机的基础设施早已做好了准备。
6.That final sentence has come to, if not define then at least hint at, the singular attitude that underlies his democratic way of seeing.
最后这句话其实就来自于他那卓越的态度，构成了他观察事物的民主方法的基础。
7.But of particular value relative to this article is Hettinger's explanation of the lookup chain that underlies Python's concept of OOP.
但与本文有关的是，Hettinger对Python面向对象编程概念下的查找链的解释。
8.The inpidualistic first-person certainty which underlies both rationalist and empiricist approaches to philosophy is shown to be in error.
建立在个人主义的第一人称确定性基础之上的哲学的理性主义和经验主义方法都表明是错误的。
9.The actual XML data format that underlies things is abstracted almost to the point of invisibility.
实际的XML数据格式几乎被抽象得不可见。
10.But a less thoroughgoing approach to modular design underlies the next stage of Dr Venter's plans, too.
但一个不彻底的模块化设计也是文德尔下一步计划的基础。