Overture
['əʊvətj(ʊ)ə] or ['ovətʃʊr]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
編輯:塞格雷--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(-) 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.
卡米尔錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Proposal, offer, proposition.[2]. (Mus.) Orchestral introduction to an opera, oratorio, &c.
手打:莱曼
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prelude, advance, proposal, offer, invitation, lead, initiation
ANT:Inaction, undemonstrativeness, quiescence
錄入:罗宾逊
解釋/意思:
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.
錄入:基思
例句/造句/用法:
- 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- What was the overture to Guillaume Tell but a symphony under another name? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Tom watched the little lady a great deal, before he ventured on any overtures towards acquaintanceship. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 雪麗.
- But now, when he has made his overtures so properly, and honourably--what are your scruples _now_? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Each of the teachers in turn made me overtures of special intimacy; I tried them all. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- 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. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- You won't tell us what overtures? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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