Overture
['əʊvətj(ʊ)ə] or ['ovətʃʊr]
解释:
(noun.) orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio.
(noun.) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; 'she rejected his advances'.
编辑:塞格雷--From WordNet
解释:
(-) An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
(-) Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
(-) A proposal; an offer; a proposition formally submitted for consideration, acceptance, or rejection.
(-) A composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.
(v. t.) To make an overture to; as, to overture a religious body on some subject.
卡米尔录入
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Proposal, offer, proposition.[2]. (Mus.) Orchestral introduction to an opera, oratorio, &c.
手打:莱曼
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Prelude, advance, proposal, offer, invitation, lead, initiation
ANT:Inaction, undemonstrativeness, quiescence
录入:罗宾逊
解释:
n. a proposal an offer for acceptance or rejection: (mus.) a piece introductory to a greater piece or ballet: a discovery or disclosure: the method in Presbyterian usage of beginning legislation and maturing opinion by sending some proposition from the presbyteries to the General Assembly and vice vers also the proposal so sent.—v.t. to lay a proposal before.
录入:基思
例句:
- Sherman paid no attention at all to the overture, but pushed forward and took the town without making any conditions whatever with its citizens. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- What was the overture to Guillaume Tell but a symphony under another name? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Tom watched the little lady a great deal, before he ventured on any overtures towards acquaintanceship. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- They had no faith in electric lighting, and rejected all our overtures to induce them to take up the new business of making electric-light fixtures. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I've had overtures made to me lately that I saw were treacherous, and I flung 'em back i' the faces o' them that offered 'em. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But now, when he has made his overtures so properly, and honourably--what are your scruples _now_? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- So he knuckled down, again to use his own phrase, and sent old Hulker with peaceable overtures to Osborne. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The shaking figure, unnerved and disjointed from head to foot, put out its two hands a little way, as making overtures of peace and reconciliation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- But I resisted all these overtures, and sat there in desperation; each time asking him, with tears in my eyes, for my money or my jacket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Each of the teachers in turn made me overtures of special intimacy; I tried them all. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- As the silence became painful I concluded to hazard a little conversation on my own part, as I had guessed that he was making overtures of peace. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- You won't tell us what overtures? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
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