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

• 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。
• 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。
• The French team finished first in the competition preliminaries.
  法国队在预赛中名列第一。
• 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。
• 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。
• It had taken about ten minutes to cover the preliminaries
  准备工作大概花了10分钟。
• The instructor took it for granted that no preliminaries were needed.
  教练员当然地认为不需要任何开场白。
• 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。
• Epigraph: Quotation in book preliminaries.
  题词：书籍引文内的语录。
• 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。