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

• 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。
• Functions that draw something Obviously, once all the preliminaries are out of the way, this is the really important stuff.
  绘制一些东西的函数-显然，一旦所有的准备都不碍事时，这是真正重要的材料。
• 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。
• These preliminaries over, the three began to talk.
  序幕演完了，三个人开始谈天。
• China was in third place after the preliminaries which were dominated by the Russians and Romanians.
  预赛后中国名列第三，而俄国和罗马尼亚队则在预赛中占绝对优势。
• 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。
• 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。
• He spent a long time on polite preliminaries.
  开始时他的许多时间花在客套上。
• Normally they swim preliminaries in the morning and finals in the evening.
  通常游泳运动员上午参加预赛，晚上参加决赛。
• 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。