preliminaries

英 [prɪˈlɪmɪnəriz]

美 [prɪˈlɪməˌnɛriz]

n.  初步行动(或活动); 预备性措施
preliminary的复数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 预备的；初步的
  Preliminaryactivities or discussions take place at the beginning of an event, often as a form of preparation.
  1. Preliminary results show the Republican party with 11 percent of the vote...
     初步结果显示共和党获得了11%的选票。
  2. Preliminary talks on the future of the bases began yesterday.
     昨天开始了关于基地未来的初步讨论。
• N-COUNT 准备工作；初步行动
  Apreliminaryis something that you do at the beginning of an activity, often as a form of preparation.
  1. It had taken about ten minutes to cover the preliminaries...
     准备工作大概花了10分钟。
  2. A background check is normally a preliminary to a presidential appointment.
     总统任命前通常要进行背景审查的准备工作。
• N-COUNT 预赛；初赛；初试
  Apreliminaryis the first part of a competition to see who will go on to the main competition.
  1. The winner of each preliminary goes through to the final.
     每场初赛的获胜者进入决赛。

双语例句

• In Beijing, preliminaries will be in the evening and finals will be in the morning.
  而在北京奥运会上，预赛将在晚间举行，而总决赛将在上午举行。
• There are a lot of preliminaries to be gone through before you can visit China.
  你在去访问中国之前有许多准备工作要做。
• Ater a few preliminaries he told me in precise and formal detail the story set out below.
  在略为寒暄之后，他严谨详细地告诉我下面的事。
• Section 2 to some preliminaries from random functional analysis and abstract space valued measurable functions.
  第二节给出某些有关随机泛函分析及取值于抽象空间的可测函数的预备知识；
• England was lucky to get through the preliminaries.
  英格兰队幸运地通过了预选赛。
• Baking Preliminaries: 20 minutes before baking time, put a rack in the lower third of the oven;
  烘烤准备：烘烤前20分钟的时候，把机架放在微波炉高度三分之一的地方；
• He got through the preliminaries but lost out in the finals.
  他通过了预赛，但在决赛中输掉了。
• The speaker took a short cut to his subject by omitting all the preliminaries to his lecture.
  演讲人没有讲开场白，就直截了当地讲他的题目。
• After a few polite preliminaries, we stated our main ideas.
  几句开场白后，我们陈述了主要观点。
• Now that I've gone through the preliminaries, it's on to actual examination of what's happening here.
  现在我已经介绍了基本的步骤，下面将实际分析一下其中到底发生了什么。