ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤essential, necessary必不可少的準備工作;必要的準備程序➤usual (especially BrE) 通常的準備工作◇After the usual preliminaries the meeting began.慣常的開場套話之後,會議開始了。PREPOSITION➤as a preliminary作為準備工作◇The two presidents met today, as a preliminary to resuming the peace talks.兩位總統今天會面了,為重啟和談做準備。➤preliminary to⋯的準備工作◇an essential preliminary to serious research進行嚴肅研究必不可少的預備工作PHRASES➤without preliminaries直截了當地◇She began speaking intensely, without preliminaries.她一句客套話都沒說就開始了熱情的演講。