prelude

英 [ˈpreljuːd]

美 [ˈpreljuːd]

n.  序曲; 前奏曲; 序幕; 前奏; 先声
v.  为…作序; 开头; 成为…的序曲; 演奏序曲; 唱开场戏

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牛津词典

noun

• 序曲；前奏曲
  a short piece of music, especially an introduction to a longer piece
• 序幕；前奏；先声
  an action or event that happens before another more important one and forms an introduction to it

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 前奏；序幕；开端
  You can describe an event as aprelude toa more important event when it happens before it and acts as an introduction to it.
  1. Most unions see privatisation as an inevitable prelude to job losses...
     大多数工会认为私有化会不可避免地导致失业。
  2. The conference, which closed yesterday, was a prelude to a Communist Party Central Committee meeting.
     昨天结束的会议拉开了共产党中央委员会会议的序幕。
• N-COUNT 序曲；前奏曲
  Apreludeis a short piece of music for the piano or organ.
  1. ...the famous E minor prelude of Chopin.
     肖邦著名的E小调前奏曲

英英释义

noun

• music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera
• something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
  1. training is a necessary preliminary to employment
  2. drinks were the overture to dinner
  Synonym:preliminaryoverture

verb

• play as a prelude
• serve as a prelude or opening to

双语例句

• When you hear the sinuous melody of a Chopin prelude, you are hearing the piano imitate the voice.
  当你聆听肖邦序曲那悠扬的旋律时，你所听到的是模仿人声的钢琴。
• That would be the prelude to the establishment of a full political union and the introduction of Eurobonds.
  这将成为建立全面政治联盟和推出欧元区共同债券的序曲。
• This era of peace was only a prelude to the maelstrom of the Warring States Period.
  这个时代的和平只是一个序幕，相邻的战国时期。
• The restructuring is a prelude to the award of three 3G licences.
  此项重组是颁发3张3g牌照的前奏。
• The agreement is being seen as a prelude to peace.
  这个协议被认为是和平的序曲。
• Ours is the kind of love to which romance novels are just a prelude.
  言情小说中的爱情于我们而言仅仅是一个前奏而已。
• As a prelude to the discussion of the photoelectric effect, we consider briefly a related phenomenon.
  作为论光电效应的序言，我们简短地叙述一个有关的现象。
• Michelson and Morley had sounded the prelude to special relativity.
  迈克耳孙和莫雷已经奏出了狭义相对论的序曲。
• Swift and resolute action leads to success; self-doubt is a prelude to disaster.
  迅速和坚决的行动是成功的保证，自我怀疑是一个灾难的前奏。
• As if her whole life has been the prelude for this moment.
  就好像她的前半生都只是这一刻的序幕。