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groundwork

/ground-wurk/US // ˈgraʊndˌwɜrk //UK // (ˈɡraʊndˌwɜːk) //

基础工作,基层工作,工作基础,基础知识

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : foundation or basis: He laid the groundwork for an international conference.

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Examples

  • While Senate Democrats and Governor Newsom blocked our amendment efforts, we did lay the groundwork for voters themselves to permanently shelve AB 5 in the November election.

  • Barrios also appears to have spent some of his final time in Gómez’s office laying the groundwork for his union job.

  • Other records obtained by VOSD suggest that Barrios was, at the very least, using his final days in office to lay the groundwork for his private union work.

  • Now, as the race for a Covid-19 vaccine continues, that groundwork could make it easier to immunize against the novel coronavirus once a shot reaches the market.

  • It adds a layer of compatibility that lays the groundwork not just for brain-inspired computers, but also for brain-machine interfaces and—perhaps—a sort of “cyborg” future.

  • “That was a good sign,” said one operative helping to lay the groundwork for a Hillary run.

  • This premiere has laid down the groundwork for a war: the underdogs and underappreciated will rise.

  • The final victory, said Cruz, was “laying the groundwork to repeal every single word of Obamacare.”

  • Ravenel knows he may not win in November, but he says the run could lay the groundwork for something else down the road.

  • If Dostoevsky unintentionally laid the philosophical groundwork upon which Putin now stands, then Tolstoy offers the solution.

  • In the clear light of a window at the woman's back, her hair, with a groundwork of crimson, was overshot with iridescent lights.

  • Had cooked up the scheme for pulling it off and had spent a good two weeks laying the groundwork.

  • The valves, gear, and nozzles were perhaps improved in detail; but the groundwork was unchanged.

  • I chanced on a hedge-sparrow's lately, the whole groundwork of which was composed of the dry vines of the wild white convolvulus.

  • All this is contained in the few lines which make up verse 33, and forms the groundwork of this great parable.

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