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prelude

/prel-yood, preyl-, prey-lood, pree-/US // ˈprɛl yud, ˈpreɪl-, ˈpreɪ lud, ˈpri- //UK // (ˈprɛljuːd) //

前奏,前奏曲,序幕,前言

Related Words

introduction介绍,简介,导言,导语prologue序幕,序言,序章,序曲preparation准备,准备工作,编制,筹备工作foreword前言,序言,序文prolegomenon序言,序言部分,序文,序幕preliminary初步,初步的,预备,初级overture序曲,序言,序幕start开始,启动,开始吧,开启preface序言,前言,序文,序论preamble序言,前言,序言部分,弁言commencement开始,启动,展开,生效exordium序言,绪论,序言部分,大纲intro介绍,简介,引言,导言proem脯,脯氨酸,脯脯,脯果curtain-raiser拉开序幕,拉开帷幕,谢幕演出,拉开序幕的人prelusion前景,前奏,前言,前奏曲

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
    • : any action, event, comment, etc. that precedes something else.
    • : Music. a relatively short, independent instrumental composition, free in form and resembling an improvisation.a piece that precedes a more important movement.the overture to an opera.an independent piece, of moderate length, sometimes used as an introduction to a fugue.music opening a church service; an introductory voluntary.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    prel·ud·ed, prel·ud·ing.

    • : to serve as a prelude or introduction to.
    • : to introduce by a prelude.
    • : to play as a prelude.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    prel·ud·ed, prel·ud·ing.

    • : to serve as a prelude.
    • : to give a prelude.
    • : to play a prelude.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounbeginning of event
Synonyms
introduction介绍,简介,导言,导语prologue序幕,序言,序章,序曲commencement开始,启动,展开,生效exordium序言,绪论,序言部分,大纲foreword前言,序言,序文intro介绍,简介,引言,导言overture序曲,序言,序幕preamble序言,前言,序言部分,弁言preface序言,前言,序文,序论preliminary初步,初步的,预备,初级preparation准备,准备工作,编制,筹备工作prolegomenon序言,序言部分,序文,序幕start开始,启动,开始吧,开启curtain-raiser拉开序幕,拉开帷幕,谢幕演出,拉开序幕的人prelusion前景,前奏,前言,前奏曲proem脯,脯氨酸,脯脯,脯果

Examples

  • Maybe, he hopes, acting well onstage will serve as a prelude to acting better in real life.

  • Morell emphasized that SolarWinds appears to have "just" been espionage and not, apparently, some type of prelude to destruction.

  • It was a prelude for Brooks, and by the time he got to his microphone, my imagination was primed.

  • It felt like a prelude, a 26-year-old entering the mastery phase of stardom.

  • Perhaps as a prelude to this attempt, researchers just published a number of new studies about the geochemistry of Bennu today in the journals Science and Science Advances, providing some of the biggest revelations to date.

  • There was an entryway near here to another courtyard, itself a prelude to the heart of the main temple.

  • This could be a prelude to peace talks—or intensified fighting.

  • Or will they be merely the dark prelude to an even darker future?

  • We should hope this only sounds like a prelude to an intervention.

  • Marguerite hoped it would be the prelude to a book she wanted to write, and asked if I could get it published somewhere.

  • A full, busy youth is your only prelude to a self-contained and independent age; and the muff inevitably develops into a bore.

  • A trifling dispute with which his reign began was the prelude to very serious events.

  • And so, with this prelude, I may as well tell without more delay what evil fortune was in store for us.

  • Is it not possible that Chopin may have afterwards substituted the new Prelude for one of those already forwarded to France?

  • Chopin began generally to prelude apathetically and only gradually grew warm, but then his playing was really grand.

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