Preliminary reading
[计] 预先读出
🧩 词语组成解析
preliminary
[prɪ'lɪmɪnɛri]
adj. 初步的，初级的;预备的;开端的;序言的;
n. 准备工作;预赛;初步措施;（对学生等的）预考;
pre预先+limin门槛，限制+ary形容词后缀→入门以前→初步的
🗣️ 情景例句
Nice to meet you, Alexandra.
很高兴见到你， Alexandra。
I don't know what his native language is.
我不知道他的母语是什么。
To our dismay, we saw that there were snails everywhere:
让人沮丧的是，我们发现到处都是蜗牛：