prefaces

英 [ˈprefəsɪz]

美 [ˈprefəsɪz]

n.  (书的)前言，序言
v.  为…写序言; 以…为开端; 作…的开场白
preface的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• （书的）序言，前言，绪论
  Aprefaceis an introduction at the beginning of a book, which explains what the book is about or why it was written.
• VERB 以…为开端；以…作为开场白
  If youprefacean action or speechwithsomething else, you do or say this other thing first.
  1. I will preface what I am going to say with a few lines from Shakespeare...
     进入正题之前，我先引用莎士比亚的几句诗作为开场白。
  2. The president prefaced his remarks by saying he has supported unemployment benefits all along.
     总统在发表讲话前说他一直以来都支持发放失业津贴。

双语例句

• Poem Prefaces related to religion is another big kind of Poem Prefaces in the Tang Dynasty.
  与宗教有关的诗序是唐代诗序的又一大类。
• The prefaces and epilogues of the Ci collections are very important forms of our Ci theory criticism.
  词籍序跋是我国词学理论批评的一种十分重要的形式。
• This paper takes prefaces to books as the study subject.
  本论文将以书目序言作为研究对象。
• However, our pragmatic approach focuses on linguistic politeness due to its opulence in Chinese prefaces to academic works.
  汉语学术著作序言中的礼貌现象俯拾皆是，因此文中对序言的语用考察主要集中在对其中礼貌现象的梳理和诠释上。
• A Comparative Study of Hedges in Linguistic Book Prefaces between Chinese and English an Adaptation Theory Approach
  中英文语言学专著前言中模糊限制语对比研究&顺应论视角
• Chapter two discovers the connotation and the unceasingly developing history of several poetic aesthetic categories such as vigor of style, rhythm and fusion of setting and feeling reflected in the prefaces and postscripts.
  第二章揭示了序跋中反映出风骨、声律和声调、兴象几个诗学美学范畴的内涵和不断演进的历史；
• Prefaces and postscript text is an important style of the ancient Chinese prose.
  序跋文是中国古代散文的重要文体之一。
• Jame's prefaces are always important.
  詹姆斯小说的前言总是重要的。
• Similarly, Poem Prefaces also take the responsibility of expounding the scholars 'literary thoughts.
  与此相类，诗序也承担了相应的阐述文人文学观念的职责。
• Dongpo was the first Ci poet that used a large-scale prefaces and did it very well.
  东坡是最早大规模使用题序并取得了良好效果的词人。