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

• The preliminaries are being held here in three days.
  初试还有三天就要在这里举行。
• The French team finished first in the competition preliminaries.
  法国队在预赛中名列第一。
• 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；
• He spent a long time on polite preliminaries.
  开始时他的许多时间花在客套上。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• These preliminaries over, the three began to talk.
  序幕演完了，三个人开始谈天。