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 groundwork ['graundwә:k]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 地基, 基础, 根据

  1. The groundwork or source of something.
    基础，根源某事物的基础工作或根源
  2. Constant practice is the groundwork for success in play the piano.
    要弹得一手好钢琴，经常练习才是根本。
  3. But a preliminary groundwork must be laid this year.
    但是今年要打好初步基础。


groundwork
[ noun ]
  1. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

    2. <noun.cognition>
    the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture
  2. lowest support of a structure

    3. <noun.artifact>
    it was built on a base of solid rock
    he stood at the foot of the tower
  3. preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation

    4. <noun.act>
    we are prepared today because of groundwork that was done ten years ago


Groundwork \Ground"work`\ (ground"w[^u]rk`), n.
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the
basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle;
as, development of a convenient DNA sequencing technique
layed the groundwork for many of the subsequent advances in
molecular genetics. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

  1. A range of arms control issues were on the agenda as well as laying the groundwork for a superpower summit meeting between Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at a yet-to-be-decided time.
  2. The 67-year-old Ms. Cockrell, who was mayor from 1975 to 1981, has said she laid some of the groundwork for Cisneros and now wants to concentrate on his economic development efforts.
  3. In California he is concentrating on building an organization both to counter Jesse Jackson's plans to outspend Dukakis on television ads, and to lay the groundwork for the fall campaign against Republican George Bush.
  4. Meanwhile, Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, laid the groundwork for a vote today on whether to limit debate to 30 hours. It would take 60 votes to succeed in such a move.
  5. Kodak said that "there is no longer any strategic reason" to maintain its equity positions in the companies, because the ICN and Viratek investments had been intended "to lay the groundwork for the creation of the Nucleic Acid Research Institute."
  6. "They have announced the Apollo-killer and laid the groundwork for competing with (IBM's) PS-2" he added.
  7. That, in turn, might lay the groundwork for a bigger and more long-lasting U.N. presence in northern Iraq to aid the Kurds, who are demanding autonomy from the Sunni Muslim government of Saddam Hussein.
  8. Bush and Salinas will meet Sunday night, laying the groundwork for a formal announcement of their decision by the White House on Monday.
  9. The groundwork for the campaign will be laid this month at a conference in Baltimore, where 200 lawyers, activists, doctors and public policy experts will draft an agenda for addressing what many say is a crisis in health care for non-whites.
  10. The Fed's reluctance to ease credit now could be laying the groundwork for a new recession, perhaps starting early next year.
  11. Legislation was passed in Parliament in October to set the legal groundwork for the free elections, and the Communist Party disbanded, reconstituting itself as the Hungarian Socialist Party and aspiring to democratic ideals.
  12. "At a political and rhetorical level, it steals a lot of the Democrats' thunder and lays the groundwork for the 1992 election.
  13. The talks are designed to lay the groundwork for a decision-making conference in May.
  14. Bush, however, has wasted no time in laying the groundwork for his general election campaign.
  15. Those low-tax forces are already laying the groundwork for a new assault on Congress.
  16. After shouting loud and clear its intentions to veto Congress's protection-sodden trade bill, the administration is laying the groundwork for a bill Mr. Reagan can sign.
  17. Bryant said Wilson's first big assignment was doing the groundwork for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's first African tour in the late 1970s.
  18. Administration officials say intelligence also shows that Iran has laid the groundwork for terrorism in the U.S.
  19. By trying to avoid a recession, he contends, the Fed and the administration may be laying the groundwork for a worse cataclysm in the future.
  20. Besides laying the groundwork for equity sales, Japanese brokerage firms are hoping to grab a share of the Thai government's fund-raising activities.
  21. This has allowed much of the important groundwork for development to take place.
  22. Mr. Brusca says the Fed already may be laying the groundwork for a credit-easing move.
  23. U.S. officials are worried that the Sandinistas may be laying the groundwork either to call off the elections or to steal them.
  24. By withholding recognition from the Noriega-led government which assumed power after Delvalle's ouster, the administration hoped to force its ouster and to lay the groundwork for the restoration of democratic rule.
  25. Mr. Starrs says all of the groundwork he did before the exhumation makes his work more acceptable than the Zachary Taylor exhumation, of which he had no part.
  26. Funds from the U.S. Marshall Plan laid the groundwork for industrialization.
  27. "These actions have laid the groundwork for a return to operating profitability in 1987," the company said.
  28. Mohammad Javad Iravani, minister of economic and financial affairs, preceded him to Moscow to complete the groundwork for signing a number of agreements, IRNA said.
  29. During the "lean years" from 1982 to 1986, Perez de Cuellar could only lay the groundwork for future successes, Brian Urquhart, the former chief U.N. peacekeeping offical, said in a 1988 newspaper interview.
  30. Kohl's government has resisted East German requests for aid to supplement the sums Bonn is already spending to lay the economic and social groundwork for unity.
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