preliminary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 初步的, 开端的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One half of the company was already seated at the card-table, the other half awaited the result of the stereotype preliminary observation of the lady of the house: 'Now let us see what we can do to amuse ourselves.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bowing to right and left to the people he met, and here as everywhere joyously greeting acquaintances, he went up to the sideboard for a preliminary appetizer of fish and vodka, and said to the painted Frenchwoman decked in ribbons, lace, and ringlets, behind the counter, something so amusing that even that Frenchwoman was moved to genuine laughter.
-- The efforts of Agafea Mihalovna and the cook, that the dinner should be particularly good, only ended in two famished friends attacking the preliminary course, eating a great deal of bread and butter, salt goose and salted mushrooms, and in Levin's finally ordering the soup to be served without the accompaniment of little pies, with which the cook had particularly meant to impress their visitor.
-- I have come simply to consult you as a preliminary step.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't tell you how wise I consider you to have made that broad preliminary survey.
-- It was praised in Paris and Brussels and Cambridge as much as in New York, for its insight and for "the clarity and to perhaps be unscientifically enthusiastic, the sheer delight and style of its presentation," as Professor Berkeley Wurtz put it; which may be indicated by quoting the first paragraph of the paper: In a preliminary publication, I have reported a marked qualitative destructive effect of the radiations from radium emanations on Bacteriophage-anti-Shiga.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On arriving here and de-termining on a certain 芒聙娄 journey, I should like to make some necessary preliminary arrangements.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Iremarked that the Old Soldier took him into custody directly, forher partner; and instructed him, as the first preliminary ofinitiation, to give her all the silver he had in his pocket.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now just to learn whether you have pluck enough to let me do what I wish, I'll give you a preliminary test."
-- Hence as many eyes were turned upon her, enthroned alone in this place of honour, against a scarlet background, as upon the ponies and clown who were engaged in preliminary exploits in the centre, Turpin not having yet appeared.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rastignac's first year of study for the preliminary examinations in law had left him free to see the sights of Paris and to enjoy some of its amusements.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I fear, my friend, that I shall render myself tedious by dwelling on these preliminary circumstances; but they were days of comparative happiness, and I think of them with pleasure.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She rose hastily, without her usual preliminary burrowings and stretchings, and went to thewindow, hoping to see some neighbor's face, some heartening sight.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Proceeding into the Castle again, we found the Aged heating the poker, with expectant eyes, as a preliminary to the performance of this great nightly ceremony.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After one or two preliminary hems, I determined to inquire.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 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.
-- He was about (connecting the accrediting with an obtrusive person of the name of Clennam, whom he imperfectly remembered in some former state of existence) to black-ball the name of Gowan finally, when Edward Dorrit, Esquire, came into the conversation, with his glass in his eye, and the preliminary remark of 'I say you there!Go out, will you!
-- But even to get the very doubtful and preliminary stage of making the appeal, seemed one of the least promising of human undertakings.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And once Daggoo, seized with a sudden humor, assisted Dough-Boy's memory by snatching him up bodily, and thrusting his head into a great empty wooden trencher, while Tashtego, knife in hand, began laying out the circle preliminary to scalping him.
-- For one, I used to lounge up the rigging very leisurely, resting in the top to have a chat with Queequeg, or any one else off duty whom I might find there; then ascending a little way further, and throwing a lazy leg over the top-sail yard, take a preliminary view of the watery pastures, and so at last mount to my ultimate destination.
-- In disposing of the body of a right whale, when brought alongside the ship, the same preliminary proceedings commonly take place as in the case of a sperm whale; only, in the latter instance, the head is cut off whole, but in the former the lips and tongue are separately removed and hoisted on deck, with all the well known black bone attached to what is called the crown-piece.
-- What tenderness there is in that preliminary touch!Had this tail any prehensile power, I should straightway bethink me of Darmonodes' elephant that so frequented the flower-market, and with low salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their zones.
-- Ahab stood before him, and was lightly unwinding some thirty or forty turns to form a preliminary hand-coil to toss overboard, when the old Manxman, who was intently eyeing both him and the line, made bold to speak.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bumble had been despatched to make various preliminary inquiries, with the view of finding out some captain or other who wanted a cabin-boy without any friends; and was returning to the workhouse to communicate the result of his mission; when he encountered at the gate, no less a person than Mr. Sowerberry, the parochial undertaker.
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