Prelude

(noun.) music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera.

(verb.) play as a prelude.

(verb.) serve as a prelude or opening to.

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• His design for that great work demanded a prelude of splendour and tranquillity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Presently, without preface or prelude, she said, almost in the tone of one making an accusation, Meess, in England you were a governess? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I hesitated; of the formula of confession I was ignorant: instead of commencing, then, with the prelude usual, I said:--Mon père, je suis Protestante. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• You would think that the prelude to a bloody onslaught. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• This incident was really the prelude to the development set forth in this chapter. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They were the prelude to the first reception of Mr and Mrs Gowan at dinner, and they skilfully placed Gowan on his usual ground in the new family. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I had already been out many hours, and felt the torment of a burning thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Little did I think that this would be the prelude to the most crushing misfortune of my life. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Lizzie presently began, by way of prelude, 'You must have many lovers--' when Bella checked her with a little scream of astonishment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• So did all the rest of Brussels--where people felt that the fight of the day before was but the prelude to the greater combat which was imminent. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But now, leaving the prelude, let us proceed to the hymn. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And to think, said Mrs Dengelton, without further prelude, that you will be so far away from home to-morrow. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• For all these things are only the prelude, and you surely do not suppose that a mere mathematician is also a dialectician? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Each case has been the prelude to another, and the crisis once over, the actors have passed for ever out of our busy lives. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Most of the states produced similar preludes to government. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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