| 词组 | preface |
| 释义 | preface 1. Noun. Preface is usually used with to: • ... Wilson explained in his preface to Axel's Castle —Current Biography, January 1964 • ... we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory —T. S. Eliot, "Francis Herbert Bradley," in Selected Essays, 1932 • This is not of course a complete political philosophy But it is a poet's preface to politics —Eric Bentley, in Forms of Modern Fiction, ed. William Van O'Connor, 1948 Preface also has some use with for: • Jean-Paul Sartre ... wrote the preface for her second novel —Current Biography, June 1966 2. Verb. Preface may be used with with: • The brief poems with which he prefaced and followed 'Al Aaraaf —Daniel Hoffman, Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe, 1972 • Her cousin prefaced his speech with a solemn bow —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 • ... prefaces each section of his book with mystical epigraphs —Paul Zweig, Saturday Rex., August 1978 • They prefaced their skating with dinner in a Spanish restaurant —Aurelia Levi, Discovery, March 1954 Preface often is found with by: • ... a forebuilding carrying two circular tempiettos at its ends and prefaced by an open octagonal porch — John Summerson, Heavenly Mansions, 1948 • The chapters on the historians are prefaced by chapters on Aristotle and Homer —Times Literary Supp., 29 Aug. 1955 • ... the laws themselves should be prefaced by preambles of a "persuasive" sort —Glenn R. Morrow, Philosophical Rev., April 1953 Infrequently, preface is followed by to: • ... a note prefaced to the score —Edward SackvilleWest & Desmond Shawe-Taylor, The Record Year, 1952 |
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