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

• You all know why I am here. So I won't waste time on preliminaries.
  你们都知道我来这里的目的。所以我就闲话少说了。
• I think Thailand were the "Dark Horse" of this year's World Grand Prix preliminaries.
  我觉得泰国是前几轮比赛的黑马。
• 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；
• I propose? After the usual preliminaries? To come straight to the point.
  我建议？开始时一般的客套话以后？直截了当就进人正题。
• The question was addressed without preliminaries as the living-room door opened and the Duchess of Croydon appeared. I'm going to be straight with you. We want you back, Bruce.
  克罗伊敦公爵夫人刚从起居室门口走出来，就开门见山地问道。我打算开门见山地和你谈谈。我们想要你回来，布鲁斯。
• Epigraph: Quotation in book preliminaries.
  题词：书籍引文内的语录。
• These preliminaries over, the three began to talk.
  序幕演完了，三个人开始谈天。
• Zynga will be the largest test to date, and it clearly has passed the private-market preliminaries.
  Zynga公司将是迄今为止最大的一次实验，而它显然已通过私募市场的初步考验了。
• When he had put his belongs aside, he began to talk without any unnecessary preliminaries.
  他放下了他带的东西，开始讲起来，没有作任何不必要的开场白。
• 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；