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

• 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。
• They are likewise known for brief but intense relationships with their kin, for you don't have time for protracted preliminaries when tomorrow will see you far away.
  他们同样因为与亲属短暂但是热烈的关系而出名，以至于你还没有时间拖延或者准备他们已经走了。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。