Prelude
['preljuːd] or ['prɛljud]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera.
(verb.) play as a prelude.
(verb.) serve as a prelude or opening to.
手打:柯尔斯顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent composers often synonymous with overture.
(v. i.) To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance; to serve as prelude.
(v. t.) To introduce with a previous performance; to play or perform a prelude to; as, to prelude a concert with a lively air.
(v. t.) To serve as prelude to; to precede as introductory.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. Introduction (to a piece of music), preliminary, preface, preamble, proem, PROLOGUE, exordium.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Introduction, preparation, preface, proem, {[preli*ion]?}, overture,[SeePREFACE]
ANT:Sequel, conclusion
乔治娜手打
解釋/意思:
n. the introductory movement of a musical work: a prefatory piece to an oratorio &c.: an organ voluntary before a church service: a preface: a forerunner.—v.t. Prelude′ to play before: to preface as an introduction.—v.i. to perform a prelude: to serve as a prelude.—adjs. Prelū′dial and Prelū′dious (rare); Prelū′sive of the nature of a prelude: introductory.—advs. Prelū′sively; Prelū′sorily.—adj. Prelū′sory introductory.
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例句/造句/用法:
- His design for that great work demanded a prelude of splendour and tranquillity. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Presently, without preface or prelude, she said, almost in the tone of one making an accusation, Meess, in England you were a governess? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I hesitated; of the formula of confession I was ignorant: instead of commencing, then, with the prelude usual, I said:--Mon père, je suis Protestante. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- You would think that the prelude to a bloody onslaught. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This incident was really the prelude to the development set forth in this chapter. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- They were the prelude to the first reception of Mr and Mrs Gowan at dinner, and they skilfully placed Gowan on his usual ground in the new family. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I had already been out many hours, and felt the torment of a burning thirst, a prelude to my other sufferings. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Little did I think that this would be the prelude to the most crushing misfortune of my life. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Lizzie presently began, by way of prelude, 'You must have many lovers--' when Bella checked her with a little scream of astonishment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- So did all the rest of Brussels--where people felt that the fight of the day before was but the prelude to the greater combat which was imminent. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But now, leaving the prelude, let us proceed to the hymn. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And to think, said Mrs Dengelton, without further prelude, that you will be so far away from home to-morrow. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- For all these things are only the prelude, and you surely do not suppose that a mere mathematician is also a dialectician? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Each case has been the prelude to another, and the crisis once over, the actors have passed for ever out of our busy lives. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Most of the states produced similar preludes to government. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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