prelude

prelude['prelju:d; 'prei-]

• n.
  • 序言；序幕；开场戏；前奏
  • 【音乐】序曲；前奏曲；形式自由的短曲
  • 预兆，前兆
  • (诗歌等的)引子；序诗
• vt.
  • 成为…的序曲(或序幕)；奏(序曲)，奏前奏曲
  • 为…作序；开头；成为…的前兆：

    She preludes her remarks with a jest.

    她开始讲话时先说一个笑话。

• vi.
  • 奏序曲；唱开场戏；成为序幕；成为前兆：

    He preluded with some banal remarks.

    他讲了一些老套话作为开场白。

• 变形:

  vt.preluded.preluding

• leap into
• capsulize
• ombrellino
• reduce sb to doing sth
• dewiest
• a bit much
• avant-gardes
• au jour le jour
• find a white feather in someone's tail
• IMS
• pruritus vulvaes
• backwater valve
• coincidents
• go ashore
• eyras
• outstations
• roadpeople
• whole hog
• roomers
• heliography
• braconids
• burial metamorphism
• bugger alls
• anhydrotic
• take much account of
• siege mentalities
• trebled
• plesiosaurs
• unblinkingly
• to a proverb
• like a rabbit / deer caught in headlights
• stereochemical
• unique radiolytic product
• grid parallel
• microtomist
• trimly
• run something hard
• photoplane
• hegemonistic
• cheeseparing
• quier
• derris
• radio echo
• bucket of bolts
• canonical ensemble
• compound antenna
• wholly
• chandui
• there you go again
• literacy
• swashed
• sixscore
• minimum price fluctuation
• chestnut blight
• break ... back
• cross-dressing
• impossibleness
• Dulong-Petit law
• lose no time
• adjacent-channel selectivity
• three-spot
• gesticulating
• extramorainic
• alveolar duct
• U-238
• overstatement
• speechmaker
• non-Western
• inferior colliculus
• safety service
• rosiness
• galvanoplasty
• ravishment
• uranium dioxide
• carbo-
• carron oils
• quezals
• detersive
• pibroch
• two-stepped
• wood ether
• on line
• bone spavin
• radioelements
• divisivenesses
• gram molecules
• exterior derivative
• love match
• c.g.s. units
• mailcoaches
• reentrant angles
• icelandic kronas
• diallyl phthalate
• give way (to sb/sth)
• gillylies
• put / force sb on the defensive
• ib.
• shamoy
• storiette
• foretime