Preliminary
[prɪ'lɪmɪn(ə)rɪ] or [prɪ'lɪmɪnɛri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; 'training is a necessary preliminary to employment'; 'drinks were the overture to dinner'.
(noun.) a minor match preceding the main event.
(adj.) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important; designed to orient or acquaint with a situation before proceeding; 'a preliminary investigation' .
希勒尔錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations.
(n.) That which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the year before entering college.
編輯:普鲁登斯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Introductory, preparatory, prefatory, proemial, prelusive, precursory, previous, prior, precedent.
n. Introduction, PRELUDE, preparatory step.
編輯:罗赞娜
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Previous, proemial, precursive, prelusory, antecedent, preparatory
ANT:Subsequent, consequent, following
伊夫林整理
解釋/意思:
adj. introductory: preparatory: preceding or preparing for the main discourse or business.—n. that which precedes: introduction—used mostly in pl.—adv. Prelim′inarily.
整理:李奥娜
例句/造句/用法:
- It failed after some preliminary successes and another great slaughtering of Russians. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Slowly but surely the results of the last few thousands of his preliminary experiments had pointed inevitably to a new and fruitful region ahead. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But even to get the very doubtful and preliminary stage of making the appeal, seemed one of the least promising of human undertakings. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Then I will try again; you will understand me better when I have made some preliminary remarks. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It was only after all this preliminary sanitation was accomplished that the real work of digging the canal could go forward with any hope of success. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Needless to say, mastery of its literature is regarded by him as a most important preliminary in taking up any line of investigation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I constructed an instrument that would record the sound, and set out to make a preliminary report, but I found that they never intended to do anything but let the people complain. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Reference has been made in this chapter to the preliminary study that Edison brought to bear on the development of the gas art and industry. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The reason why those little preliminary explosions took place was that a little had spattered out on the edge of the filter paper, and had dried first and exploded. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- When Little Dorrit had her work on the table, and Maggy hers on the bedstead, Fanny fell to tying her bonnet as a preliminary to her departure. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- First let me make some preliminary remarks. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Betteredge gave his imperfectly-pointed pencil a preliminary lick with his tongue. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- All preliminary explanations being now cleared out of the way, I come at last to the real knot of the case--to the twenty thousand pounds. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Oersted, in 1827, preceded him with important preliminary steps, and Deville, in 1854, followed in the first commercial applications. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The disclosure of the conspiracy followed, after I had offered my preliminary explanation, first of all, in the fewest and the plainest words. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The ground was measured, and preliminaries arranged. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The preliminaries are adjusted, and the butcher and myself stand face to face. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- That day they arranged together the preliminaries of the treaty of capitulation. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Herein then are set forth in briefest space the preliminaries of a circuit of the globe in quest of fibre. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But even if his resolves had forced the two images into combination, the useful preliminaries to that hard change were not visibly within reach. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- For which reason, not to lose time upon preliminaries, I shall immediately enter upon the examination of these passions. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- When she had gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a sort of genteel platoon-exercise, she withdrew. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I ran away, the writer began abruptly (without the usual preliminaries), the day after I saw you at the play, and these kind friends have taken me in. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- These preliminaries disposed of, he first examined the nightgown, and then devoted himself to the reading of Rosanna Spearman's letter. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- These preliminaries completed, Mr. Kyrle and I set forth together for Limmeridge House. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- On this present birthday, Mr. Bagnet has accomplished the usual preliminaries. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In 1801 the preliminaries of peace with England and Austria were signed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Come to the ground, and go through the preliminaries! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Having settled these preliminaries, Mr. Pickwick grasped the top of the wall, and gave the word 'Over,' which was literally obeyed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- These preliminaries adjusted, Rose and Oliver returned home. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
錄入:莉娜