preparatory meetings
预备会议
Security checks had been carried out preparatory to(= to prepare for) the President's visit.
为迎接总统来访，当局已预先进行了安全检查。
1.准备的,预备的;筹备的
1.〈美〉大学预科;〈英〉(为升入高级中学作准备的)私立预科学校
1.在先前;作为准备 (to)
1.done as preparation for something else
1.Tom's folks, Muley said, HAD gone to a relative's place preparatory to going west. Muley was the only sharecropper to stay behind.
莫利还告诉他们说汤姆的亲属也已经搬到一个亲戚那里准备到西部去。莫利是唯一留下不走的佃农。
2.In particular, scientists tend to see preparatory brain activity as proceeding stepwise, one bit at a time, to a final decision.
特别是，科学家们倾向于将预备性脑电活动视为步进性过程，某个时间一点点，直至最后做出决策。
3.From the beginning, the effort is filmic , not literary, although the preparatory ideas can be put down and worked out in writing.
从一开始，努力的方向就应该是电影化，而不是文字化，尽管准备阶段的创意可以用书写的方式记录和发展出来。
4.This preparatory period (two or even three months, there is no strict rule) is an integral part of your sabbatical, and you must know it.
这一预备期（两个月甚至三个月，对此没有严格规定）是你假期中不可缺少的一部分，你一定要了解这点。
5.The painting is the result of careful planning--he made over twenty preparatory studies in pastel and in oil.
此画是仔细策划的结果，他曾用色分和油画颜料打过20多幅底稿。
6.It is a pity that most of us do not realize that we are created for the Hereafter and that this life is only a preparatory period.
遗憾的是我们中的多数人没有意识到我们是为后世受造的，今世只是预备阶段。
7.A preparatory committee is expected to produce a report on the substance and modalities of the new round negotiation in July 1986.
筹备委员会可望在1986年7月提出一项关于新一轮谈判的内容和形式的报告。
8.In the early opening of your business, should do the preparatory phase, but because your agent at the time of the mistakes made by business.
在您企业开业初期，应做筹备期，但由于您当时的代理人的失误，做成了开业。
9.This was where we were to have our preparatory language courses.
这就是我们要上语言预备课的地方。
10.Completion of the preparatory work, the waiter should be collating inpidual instruments, and was greeted at the elevator.
解决准备工作后，服务员应整理好个人仪表，站在电梯口迎候。