原句中basically是修饰the same的。副词修饰形容词应该是前置修饰。所以第二句中的basically不可能是修饰the same的,只能理解为谓体状语,这就不是原句的意思了,不符合改写的原则。
For simplicity's sake, we'll consider these two options as basically the same.为了简化,我们将把这两个选项视为基本相同。
下面两个改写是否正确?
For simplicity's sake, we'll consider these two options basically the same.
For simplicity's sake, we'll consider these two options the same basically.