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

复数：preludes　现在分词：preluding　过去式：preluded　第三人称单数：preludes　过去分词：preluded　

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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

• The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes.
  这时电话铃响了，这预示着一串意想不到的灾难要降临了。
• This speech has been hailed by his friends as the prelude to his return to office.
  这篇讲话被他的朋友们誉为他官复原职的前奏。
• The rural reform has opened the prelude of China's reform and opening-up.
  农村改革揭开了中国改革开放的序幕。
• Closer social and economic ties between the countries serve as a prelude to economic and monetary union.
  这些国家间更加紧密的社会和经济联系成为经济和货币联盟的先声。
• 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。
• That might be a prelude to bigger policy changes.
  而这可能成为更大政策变革的前奏。
• 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。
• 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。
• That was both an exercise of presidential authority, and a prelude to liberal economic reforms.
  这两次逮捕案都是总统权力的展现，以及开启自由主义经济改革的序曲。
• 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。