preliminaries

n. 正文前的书页, 预赛
名词preliminary的复数形式

例句与用法：

He got through the preliminaries but lost out in the finals.

他通过了预赛，但在决赛中输掉了。

There are a lot of preliminaries to be gone through before you can visit a foreign country.

在出访外国之前要做好许多准备工作。