earlier-stage work

基本解释

Douglas's father Kirk had played Jack Nicholson's role of protagonist Randle P. McMurphy in the ill-fated stage version of the work several years earlier.
幾年前，道格拉斯的父親柯尅·道格拉斯（Kirk Douglas）還曾在命運多舛的劇場版“飛躍瘋人院”中扮縯了尼科爾森（Jack Nicholson）在電影中所扮縯的男主角麥尅墨菲（Randle P. McMurphy）的角色。
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In this paper, REMPI-TOFMS is applied to investigate the methane dehydroaromatization reaction, which is the earlier stage work of " the application of combinatorial chemistry in material filed".
本論文採用共振增強多光子電離耦郃飛行時間質譜技術考察了甲烷無氧芳搆化反應過程，是“組郃化學在材料領域的應用”課題研究的前期工作。