preliminary的读音是什么

1. 初步的，初级的
2. 预备（性）的
3. 开端的，开始的
4. 序言的，绪言的
5. 序言性的
6. 事先的，预先的
7. 先决的
8. 引子的
9. 准备工作的

1. 淘汰赛
2. 预考，初试
3. 【体】预赛
4. 初步措施，初步行动
5. 初步，开端，准备，预备
6. 预备性措施，预备行为
7. 入学初考
8. 次要比赛
9. 正文前的书页，序言
10. 开场白
11. 准备工作

1. 预先，初步地，作为起始，作为预备

1. a minor match preceding the main event
2. something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows;

   "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"
   "drinks were the overture to dinner"
   

1. 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"
   

1.预备的；初步的
Preliminary activities or discussions take place at the beginning of an event, often as a form of preparation.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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.准备工作；初步行动
Apreliminary is something that you do at the beginning of an activity, often as a form of preparation.

e.g. It had taken about ten minutes to cover the preliminaries...
准备工作大概花了10分钟。
e.g. A background check is normally apreliminary to a presidential appointment.
总统任命前通常要进行背景审查的准备工作。

3.预赛；初赛；初试
Apreliminary is the first part of a competition to see who will go on to the main competition.

e.g. The winner of eachpreliminary goes through to the final.
每场初赛的获胜者进入决赛。

1. They are taking preliminary steps in preparation for a possible war.
   他们正在为应付一场可能的战争做初步的准备。
2. The chairman made a preliminary statement before beginning the main business of the meeting.
   在会议主要议程开始之前,主席致了开幕词。

1. There are a lot of preliminaries to be gone through before you can visit certain foreigners.
   在访问某些外国人之前要做好许多准备工作。
2. She spent a long time on polite preliminaries.
   她开始时讲了很长时间的客套话。

• We can never get to the discussion at all, because we can never complete the necessary preliminaries.

  出自：B. Magee

• ☆ 直接源自中世纪拉丁语的praeliminaris，意为初步的。