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

• Waley knew quite well of ancient Chinese novels and wrote prefaces to the English translations of several Chinese novels.
  他对中国古代小说及小说史也甚为通晓，曾多次为他人的英译中国小说作序。
• For all further information concerning the technical particulars of this work I refer the reader to the prefaces of Marx and Engels.
  欲深入了解这部著作的技术性细节，我建议读者参考马克思和恩格斯的前言。
• The first part studies the Fu Prefaces 'style feature and function in structure.
  上编论赋序的体式特征及其结构功能。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• Prefaces& postscripts of ci collections are another kind of important literature morphology in ci study criticism.
  词籍序跋是词学批评的另一种主要文献形态。
• Five types of the relationship in the field of the higher education& Based on the prefaces and postscripts written by Pan Mao-yuan
  高等教育视野中的五类关系&基于潘懋元先生序跋的解读
• Prefaces and Postscripts to Translated Works and Translation Studies
  译作序言跋语与翻译研究