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单词 prefatory
释义
prefatory
adjective
formal
uk
/ˈpref.ə.tər.i/us
/ˈpref.ə.tɔːr.i/
coming at thebeginningof apieceof writing or aspeech:
序言（性）的；作为开端的
After a few prefatorycomments/remarks, shebeganherspeech.几句开场白后，她开始了演讲。
Synonym
introductory(BEGINNING)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
First and firstly
  • at first blushidiom
  • at firstidiom
  • begin
  • blush
  • first come, first servedidiom
  • from the word goidiom
  • front end
  • in thefirst/secondplaceidiom
  • inaugural
  • initial
  • initially
  • place
  • primary
  • proto-
  • prototypical
  • start
  • starter
  • to begin withidiom
  • trailblazing
  • word
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(Definition ofprefatoryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprefatory

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Entering the boundaries of the book, readers had to pass through the threshold of theprefatorymaterial before reaching the work itself.
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More important, the letter occurs in a new context - a public journal - among a new set of co-texts - aprefatoryletter and footnotes.
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This theme is announced unmistakably by all theprefatoryletters which various humanists appended to the 1517 and 1518 editions of the text.
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Moreover, a common practice of the time was for authors to introduce their printed plays with aprefatorystatement.
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A finalprefatorynote: just as the three motivations show no linear trend, so racial reorganization as a whole need not tend in one direction.
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A possible answer lies in the extensiveprefatorymaterial included in the volume.
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But its scope, in terms of its forces, its length, and its vision, makes all of those works seem to beprefatorysketches.
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Every text within the database is reproduced in full, including allprefatorymatter and annotations.
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The publication in journal form and theprefatoryletter and footnotes transform the main text itself.
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Minor redundancies of this sort only would have enhanced the independence and usefulness of the separateprefatorycomments for each score.
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Prefatorymaterial is followed by five chapters, each cohesive and self-contained but very much part of the whole.
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Authorial and editorial notes andprefatoryand end matter can be included in or excluded from a search or can be searched exclusively.
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Greenblatt has repeatedly denied, inprefatoryremarks to many of his works, that there is any theoretical program to his method.
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They do so, generally, in the design of theprefatory(turn-initial) components /features of the turn in which they introduce the new topic (arrowed in the following fragments).
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Casken would point to his ownprefatoryfive-line poem for an understanding of the piece.
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