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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The curtain rises toward the end of the Prelude.
  序曲将近结束时帷幕升起来了。
• The problem of starting a counter-offensive is the problem of the "initial battle" or "prelude".
  反攻开始问题，即所谓初战或序战问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• In his autobiographical poem 'The Prelude', Wordsworth describes his boyhood in the Lakes.
  在他的自传体诗《序曲》中，华兹华斯描述了自己在英格兰北部湖区的童年生活。
• The agreement is being seen as a prelude to peace.
  这个协议被认为是和平的序曲。