prologue

1 In the prologue of the book, the protagonist is in his cellar lair playing Armstrong’s “What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue,” over and over again.

2 Set in Vienna in the 1880s, it's about what Huston in his prologue portentously describes as "Freud's descent into a region almost as black as hell itself, man's unconscious and how he let in light".

3 “Want” plays with the idea of desire, beginning with a prologue in which two dancers are transformed by donning elegant shoes, preening before an invisible mirror.

4 The novel begins with a prologue set in 2017 that depicts an all too familiar sight: a mass shooting, this time at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

5 Perhaps the production’s most charming moment is its prologue, in which we find the entire cast, along with Haradnitski, on split-screen “Brady Bunch” display.

6 In the Serenade, composed in 1943, a prologue and epilogue for solo horn frame settings of five British poems through the ages about the evening and death.

7 As first seen, occupied by straight-backed, chanting girls at their desks in a fleeting, imagistic prologue, this would appear to be a contemporary schoolroom of a dreary institutional nature.

8 This severe pair, standing on low platforms, dressed in black, were like a single voice in their dry, witty prologue, which also provided a condensed history of the former Yugoslavia since the mid-1990s.

9 Prologue: As a Reservations Sales Agent, we will meet the situation of require special request.

开场白: 作为一名预订部销售文员我们会遇到有特殊要求的预订.

10 In many ways the conversation is structured like a traditional three-act play, with prologue and epilogue, and framed in such a manner that it offers some surprises along the way.

11 After the title is picked, one actor steps up to recite a prologue, all in unrehearsed rhyme.

12 The opera opens with a Prologue of the spirits.

13 But perhaps only Bondarchuk can explain a bizarre prologue that compares a man-made battle to a volcanic force of nature.

14 What's past is prologue and what is present is what we are going to see in future.

15 Then the deafening blast of a factory whistle breaks in, and the orchestra starts the prologue, a subdued, murmuring minor-mode riff over which the hushed chorus sings: “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.”

16 That’s where he is when he raps the prologue to the play, rhyming fiercely about “an entire generation of black men who were never allowed to be.”

17 The prologue begins with the playful barbarism of a party game that amounts to Whack-a-Turk and the incapacity of European women to achieve their own liberation is emphasized by the men.

18 A drama begins with a prologue, but the prologue is not the climax.

剧是必须从序幕开始的, 但序幕还不是高潮.

19 If the Olympic Games are a history of mankind, wrestling is the prologue.

如果说奥林匹克运动是一部人类的历史, 那么摔跤就是这部历史的序幕.

20 “Crazy Rich Asians” first flaunts its peacock feathers in a prologue set in London in 1986.

1 序诗

prelude overture protasis

2 开端

inchoation beginning origin alpha threshold inception preface origination get-go start departure dawn inauguration dawning START seed opening genesis preamble lead-off proem the outset commencement springboard outset top opener nucleus sunrise leadoff exordium

3 作开场白

prologuize

4 序曲

introduction pickup overture curtain-raiser

5 前言

prefatory preface foreword fwd. avant-propos prelude preamble

6 序言

introductory epigraphic introductive prelusion preface exordium preliminary remarks introduction preamble proem prolusion foreword prefatory preliminary prolegomenary prolegomenous prelusive intro. fwd. prefixture avant-propos whereas prelude prolegomenon

7 开场白

prefatorial gambit preface preamble chorus lead-in proem preliminary whereas exordium prolusion

8 序幕

prelusion prelude curtain raiser curtain-raiser proem preface the run up to preludial prelusive induction overture prolusion kickoff run-up

9 序

prolegomenon introduction preface preamble programme prolegomenous induction headnote