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

• 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。
• She began speaking intensely, without preliminaries.
  她一句客套话都没讲就开始热切地说起来。
• 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。
• 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。
• England was lucky to get through the preliminaries.
  英格兰队幸运地通过了预选赛。
• These preliminaries over, the three began to talk.
  序幕演完了，三个人开始谈天。
• 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；
• 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。
• It had taken about ten minutes to cover the preliminaries
  准备工作大概花了10分钟。