形容词::preludial
名词::preluder
过去式::preluded
过去分词::preluded
现在分词::preluding
第三人称单数::preludes
"training is a necessary preliminary to employment"
"drinks were the overture to dinner"
1.前奏；序幕；开端
You can describe an event as aprelude to a more important event when it happens before it and acts as an introduction to it.
prelude的翻译
e.g. Most unions see privatisation as an inevitableprelude to job losses...
大多数工会认为私有化会不可避免地导致失业。
e.g. The conference, which closed yesterday, was aprelude 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。
2.序曲；前奏曲
Aprelude is a short piece of music for the piano or organ.
e.g. ...the famous E minorprelude of Chopin.
肖邦著名的E小调前奏曲
1. 序幕：BeverleyNichols,英国作家,出生于一八九八年,逝世于一九八三年,从一九二零年出版小说<>(prelude)到一九八二年出版诗集<>(Twilight)为止,他一生创作了六十多部著作,涉及小说、侦探推理故事、园艺著作、童话、戏剧、歌曲整理等,
这掀开了中华文明的序幕。
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。
That is the prelude to a ruined evening.那一晚的约会就在这前奏声中毁了。
An intercultural dialogue should prelude such cooperative undertakings.文化间的对话应该成为这些合作的前奏。
The discussions were a prelude to the treaty.这些讨论是签订该条约的前奏。
An intercultural dialogue should prelude such cooperative undertakings.文化间的对话应该成为这些合作的前奏。
The prelude to the musical composition is very long.这首乐曲的序曲很长.
The prelude was as iridescent as a prism in a morning room.这个序曲就象清晨房间里的一块三棱镜一样灿烂辉煌.
The discussions were a prelude to the treaty.这些讨论是签订该条约的前奏.
In his autobiographical poem'The prelude ', Wordsworth describes his boyhood in the Lakes.在他的自传体诗《序曲》中,华茲华斯描述了自己在英格兰北部湖区的童年生活.
Error is often the precursor of what is correct, but conceit is the prelude to a fall.错误往往是正确的先导, 骄傲是跌跤的前奏.
The curtain rises toward the end of the prelude.序曲将近结束时帷幕升起来了。
It all reminded me uncomfortably of prelude to the Bay of Pigs.这一切使我不安地回想起猪湾事件发生前的情景.
The resolution was the prelude to more drastic action.这项决议只是更激烈的行为的前奏.
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.
Love is but a prelude to life.爱情仅仅是生活的序曲.
The person, whoever it was, gave a small cough, evidently as a prelude to speaking.那个人, 不知是谁, 轻轻地咳了一声, 显然是表示要说话.
I'm afraid that these troubles are just a prelude , ie to worse ones.我看这些为难事只是个引子(大问题在后面).
His investigations were a necessary prelude to the subsequent discovery of the cause of particle motions.他的研究是以后发现粒子运动原因的必要先导.
The bankruptcy of several small firms was the prelude to general economic collapse.几家小商行倒闭了,随之而来的是经济大萧条.
The orchestra played a short prelude before the ballet began.管弦乐队在芭蕾舞开始之前演奏了一段很短的前奏曲.
This period of uneasy compromise was merely the prelude to far worse frictions.
出自：V. BromeWhen the gray Of morn preludes the splendour of the day.
出自：Dryden
