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

• There are a lot of preliminaries to be gone through before you can visit China.
  你在去访问中国之前有许多准备工作要做。
• These preliminaries over, the three began to talk.
  序幕演完了，三个人开始谈天。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He got through the preliminaries but lost out in the finals.
  他通过了预赛，但在决赛中输掉了。
• 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。
• I propose? After the usual preliminaries? To come straight to the point.
  我建议？开始时一般的客套话以后？直截了当就进人正题。
• England was lucky to get through the preliminaries.
  英格兰队幸运地通过了预选赛。