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

  1. ADJ 预备的;初步的
    Preliminary activities 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。
  2. N-COUNT 准备工作;初步行动
    A preliminary is 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。
  3. N-COUNT 预赛;初赛;初试
    A preliminary is 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

  1. You all know why I am here. So I won't waste time on preliminaries.
    你们都知道我来这里的目的。所以我就闲话少说了。
  2. It had taken about ten minutes to cover the preliminaries
    准备工作大概花了10分钟。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. 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。
  7. 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。
  8. 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。
  9. 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。
  10. The preliminaries are being held here in three days.
    初试还有三天就要在这里举行。
  11. 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;
  12. 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。
  13. England was lucky to get through the preliminaries.
    英格兰队幸运地通过了预选赛。
  14. She began speaking intensely, without preliminaries.
    她一句客套话都没讲就开始热切地说起来。
  15. 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。
  16. When he had put his belongs aside, he began to talk without any unnecessary preliminaries.
    他放下了他带的东西,开始讲起来,没有作任何不必要的开场白。
  17. The French team finished first in the competition preliminaries.
    法国队在预赛中名列第一。
  18. 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。
  19. 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。
  20. 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。
  21. Epigraph: Quotation in book preliminaries.
    题词:书籍引文内的语录。
  22. 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。
  23. 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。
  24. 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。
  25. 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。
  26. He spent a long time on polite preliminaries.
    开始时他的许多时间花在客套上。
  27. 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;
  28. 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。
  29. 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;
  30. These preliminaries over, the three began to talk.
    序幕演完了,三个人开始谈天。