Groundwork
['graʊn(d)wɜːk] or ['graʊnd'wɝk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation; 'we are prepared today because of groundwork that was done ten years ago'.
整理:华莱士--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
編輯:西娅
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Base, basis, substratum, foundation, support, bottom, ground.[2]. Source, origin, first principle.
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例句/造句/用法:
- No slight to your looks, reddleman, for ye bain't bad-looking in the groundwork, though the finish is queer. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He has described what political science must be like, and anyone who has absorbed his insight has an intellectual groundwork for political observation. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I have in my hands a text-book of six hundred pages which is used in the largest universities as a groundwork of political economy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The groundwork of the face was hopefulness; but over it now I ay like a foreign substance a film of anxiety and grief. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- We have to deal with all grades of life from the frontier to the metropolis, with men who differ in sense of fact, in ideal, in the very groundwork of morals. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Humility, Jane, said he, is the groundwork of Christian virtues: you say right that you are not fit for the work. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But the groundwork is gin. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
編輯:利拉