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词汇 prologue
释义 prologue
noun
uk /ˈprəʊ.lɒɡ/ us /ˈproʊ.lɑːɡ/
[ C ]
a part that comes at the beginning of a play, story, or long poem, often giving information about events that happened before the time when the play, story, or poem begins(戏剧的)开场白,开场诗,引子
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epilogue
[ S ]literary
a series of events that happen before the main event and are related to it: (重大事件的)开端,序幕
informalA series of internal struggles was the prologue to full-scale civil war.一系列内部斗争是爆发全面内战的序幕。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Books & parts of books
acknowledgment
acknowledgmentsphrase
addendum
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concordance
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epigraph
epilogue
errata
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ISBN
jacket
library
monograph
non-biographical
omnibus
spine
verso

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prologue | American Dictionary


prologue
noun[ C ]
us/ˈproʊ·lɔɡ, -lɑɡ/
literature
a part at the beginning of esp. a play, story, or long poem that introduces it:
The essay provides a prologue to the book.

Examples of prologue


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By such means, the prologue established the norms of the performative relationship between stage and audience.
She also occasionally spoke prologues and epilogues, and often danced and sang in or between acts.
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Events in each of the prologues are written in a third person narrative.
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In addition to the speeches, there are fifty-six prologues (openings of speeches).
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Below is a list of all the prologues, with a brief description.
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A time trial specialist, he was considered one of the best time-trialists of the early 1990s, winning many prologues and individual time trials.
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The prologue would seem to be meant to present the opera as an exemplary demonstration of the power of music to arouse emotions.
There are two prologues, two epilogues and a short final speech.
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The beginnings of the prologues have large zoomorphic and foliate initials.
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The gospel prologues do not precede each gospel, as in many other insular manuscripts, but are gathered together with other prefatory material.
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Which brings us, by way of a necessary prologue, to the present task.
The rubric explicit prologus at the head of p. 287 suggests that the prologue once existed.
Figure 4 uses the implementation prologue property to insert definitions of these functions into the generated code.
The prologue is always presented as an informal chat, and is not delivered as a scripted piece.
In addition to a prologue and an epilogue, there were fifty scenes taking place in four different countries with over 180 performers.
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