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

• 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。
• Epigraph: Quotation in book preliminaries.
  题词：书籍引文内的语录。
• It had taken about ten minutes to cover the preliminaries
  准备工作大概花了10分钟。
• 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 instructor took it for granted that no preliminaries were needed.
  教练员当然地认为不需要任何开场白。
• 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；
• The1-meter diving board preliminaries of the Seventh World Swimming Championship were held here this morning.
  第七届世界游泳锦标赛男子1米跳板预赛今天上午在这里举行。
• 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。
• He spent a long time on polite preliminaries.
  开始时他的许多时间花在客套上。