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

• England was lucky to get through the preliminaries.
  英格兰队幸运地通过了预选赛。
• The French team finished first in the competition preliminaries.
  法国队在预赛中名列第一。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He spent a long time on polite preliminaries.
  开始时他的许多时间花在客套上。
• 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。
• 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。
• Epigraph: Quotation in book preliminaries.
  题词：书籍引文内的语录。
• 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。