Groundwork

(noun.) preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation; 'we are prepared today because of groundwork that was done ten years ago'.

整理:华莱士

• No slight to your looks, reddleman, for ye bain't bad-looking in the groundwork, though the finish is queer. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He has described what political science must be like, and anyone who has absorbed his insight has an intellectual groundwork for political observation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I have in my hands a text-book of six hundred pages which is used in the largest universities as a groundwork of political economy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The groundwork of the face was hopefulness; but over it now I ay like a foreign substance a film of anxiety and grief. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• We have to deal with all grades of life from the frontier to the metropolis, with men who differ in sense of fact, in ideal, in the very groundwork of morals. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Humility, Jane, said he, is the groundwork of Christian virtues: you say right that you are not fit for the work. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But the groundwork is gin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

编辑:利拉