| 词汇 | preliminary |
| 释义 | preliminary adjective[ before noun ] uk /prɪˈlɪm.ɪ.nər.i/ us /prɪˈlɪm.ə.ner.i/ C1 coming before a more important action or event, especially introducing or preparing for it: 初步的，起始的;预备的 Preliminary results show that the vaccine is effective, but this has to be confirmed by further medical trials.初查结果表明疫苗是有效的，但这有待于进一步医学实验的证实。 We've decided to change the design based on our preliminary findings.我们决定依据初步调查的结果对设计方案进行更改。 The preliminary results are very positive. Our preliminary findings suggest an increased risk for those aged over 60. Jackson is performing well in the preliminary stages of the competition. The two officials will be meeting today in order to establish a preliminary agreement. I'd like to make a few preliminary remarks before we begin the discussion. Preceding and introducing announce antedate beat build (someone/something) up countdown curtain-raiser emcee forerunner introduce introduction introductory lead up to something lead-in preamble predecessor preface prefix preliminarily prelude reintroduce preliminary noun[ Cusually plural ] uk /prɪˈlɪm.ɪ.nər.i/ us /prɪˈlɪm.ə.ner.i/ an event or action that introduces or prepares for something else: 开端活动，初步行动 After a few polite preliminaries (= introductions), we stated our main ideas and intentions.几句开场白后，我们陈述了我方的主要观点和意图。 The French team finished first in the competition preliminaries (= the first part of the competition).法国队在预赛中名列第一。 Preceding and introducing announce antedate beat build (someone/something) up countdown curtain-raiser emcee forerunner introduce introduction introductory lead up to something lead-in preamble predecessor preface prefix preliminarily prelude reintroduce preliminary | American Dictionarypreliminary adjective[ not gradable ] us/prɪˈlɪm·əˌner·i/ coming before a more important action or event, esp. introducing or preparing for it: preliminary talks a preliminary investigation The preliminary rounds of negotiation went well. preliminarynoun[ Cusually pl ]us/prɪˈlɪm·əˌner·i/ Her time of 12:32 took four seconds off the mark she set in Friday’s preliminaries. preliminary | Business Englishpreliminary adjective uk /prɪˈlɪmɪnəri/ us /prɪˈlɪmɪneri/ coming before or done to prepare for a main or more important action, event, etc: preliminary data/numbers/statisticsThe preliminary numbers indicate that all classes of creditors have accepted the plan. A final report showed inflation rising 2.4%, up from a preliminary estimate of 2.3%. He emphasized that the commissioner's decision is only preliminary. The National Transportation Safety Board, in a preliminary report, did not say what may have caused the crash. The case was dismissed because prosecutors were not ready for the preliminary hearing. preliminary agreement/approval/decisionThe commission has given preliminary approval to another 27 projects totaling $3.1 billion. a preliminary inquiry/investigationAt present a preliminary investigation is under way. preliminary discussions/meetings/talks preliminary noun[ C,usually plural ] uk /prɪˈlɪmɪnəri/ us /prɪˈlɪmɪneri/pluralpreliminaries an event or action that prepares for or introduces something: After the greetings and other preliminaries, the meeting got down to serious business. Examples of preliminarypreliminary Section 2 deals with notation and preliminaries required for the statement of our main results. Section 2 is devoted to preliminaries for logic programs with three kinds of negation, as well as the alternating mapping. Section 2 contains preliminaries which are needed to make the paper relatively self-contained. If you order a mason to build an oven, he immediately inquires about the progress of the peace, and descants on the preliminaries. The figure of £64,814 equates to a rate per square metre of £926 over 70sq.m, including preliminaries. After these preliminaries, we describe the construction of the foliation mentioned at the beginning of this section. The general situation requires some familiarity with basic notions on groupoids, which are recalled in the preliminaries. Before any detailed comment can be made on issues that arise in the course of consulting the work, a few preliminaries are needed. In the next section we discuss preliminaries with regard to processing time distributions, forms of stochastic dominance, and structures of optimal policies. Before giving our results, we need some preliminaries. Section 2 contains some technical preliminaries, including some distortion lemmas. In the next section we give some preliminaries on constraint satisfaction. Section 3 introduces the necessary preliminaries for the formal sections that follow. The rest of the paper is structured as follows: section 2 details the necessary preliminaries. Section 2 contains the preliminaries, with brief reviews of the logic of here-and-there and of answer sets semantics. See all examples of preliminary These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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