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。
• England was lucky to get through the preliminaries.
  英格兰队幸运地通过了预选赛。
• 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。
• 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。
• Epigraph: Quotation in book preliminaries.
  题词：书籍引文内的语录。
• Now that I've gone through the preliminaries, it's on to actual examination of what's happening here.
  现在我已经介绍了基本的步骤，下面将实际分析一下其中到底发生了什么。
• 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。
• The political belief in the good-naturedness is his preliminaries and premises of his political philosophy.
  善本自由的政治信念是他政治哲学的基本前提和价值取向；
• 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。