(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' .

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• It failed after some preliminary successes and another great slaughtering of Russians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Slowly but surely the results of the last few thousands of his preliminary experiments had pointed inevitably to a new and fruitful region ahead. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But even to get the very doubtful and preliminary stage of making the appeal, seemed one of the least promising of human undertakings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Then I will try again; you will understand me better when I have made some preliminary remarks. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• 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. 神奇的知识之书.
• Needless to say, mastery of its literature is regarded by him as a most important preliminary in taking up any line of investigation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• First let me make some preliminary remarks. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Betteredge gave his imperfectly-pointed pencil a preliminary lick with his tongue. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• 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. 威尔基·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. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The disclosure of the conspiracy followed, after I had offered my preliminary explanation, first of all, in the fewest and the plainest words. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The ground was measured, and preliminaries arranged. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The preliminaries are adjusted, and the butcher and myself stand face to face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• That day they arranged together the preliminaries of the treaty of capitulation. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Herein then are set forth in briefest space the preliminaries of a circuit of the globe in quest of fibre. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But even if his resolves had forced the two images into combination, the useful preliminaries to that hard change were not visibly within reach. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• For which reason, not to lose time upon preliminaries, I shall immediately enter upon the examination of these passions. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• When she had gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a sort of genteel platoon-exercise, she withdrew. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• 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. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• These preliminaries disposed of, he first examined the nightgown, and then devoted himself to the reading of Rosanna Spearman's letter. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• These preliminaries completed, Mr. Kyrle and I set forth together for Limmeridge House. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• On this present birthday, Mr. Bagnet has accomplished the usual preliminaries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In 1801 the preliminaries of peace with England and Austria were signed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Come to the ground, and go through the preliminaries! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Having settled these preliminaries, Mr. Pickwick grasped the top of the wall, and gave the word 'Over,' which was literally obeyed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• These preliminaries adjusted, Rose and Oliver returned home. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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