Ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics, former IOC Vice President Richard Pound has praised China's preparatory work.
在北京冬奥会之前,国际奥委会前副主席理查德·庞德赞扬了中国的筹备工作。
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But for the moment, you need to do the preparatory work.
但目前,你需要做准备工作。
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Rubenstein said the " very complete and very beautiful" drawing appears to have been preparatory work for a painting that was never made or was lost.
鲁宾斯坦称,这幅" 非常完整和漂亮" 的画作似乎是为一幅从未创作或遗失过的画作做准备工作。
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The court had ruled in March that parliamentary committees which do much of the preparatory work before decisions are put to a vote do not have national status, so don't match the authority of government ministries.
You are doing a lot of preparatory work, reading or gathering information, but you are unable to focus your ideas or come up with a topic you think will be original or fruitful.
The travaux préparatoires (French: "preparatory works", in the plural) are the official record of a negotiation. Sometimes published, the "travaux" are often useful in clarifying the intentions of a treaty or other instrument. This is reflected in Article 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT).