1.【乐】序曲,前奏曲
2.开场戏;序幕;序言
3.前兆,预兆
1.为...作序;开头;成为...的前兆
2.成为...的序曲[序幕];奏(序曲)
3.奏序曲;唱开场戏;成为序幕;成为前兆 (to)
1.a short piece of music that introduces a longer piece of music; a short piece of music, often one that is played on the piano; a piece of music played before a ceremony in a church
2.an event that happens before and introduces a more important event
1.In his book Collapse, Jared Diamond shows how ecological crisis is often the prelude to social catatrosphe(6).
杰拉德·戴蒙德在他的著作《崩溃》中展示了生态危机为什么往往是社会大灾难的前奏（6）。
2.That would be a prelude to 'long-term operation of a space station, ' he said.
王文宝说，这是建立长期空间站的前奏；
3.Perhaps the Sayadaw's instruction was a prelude to analysis of nama-rupa which he would deal with in his later sermons.
也许明昆长老的教导只是一个前奏，他可能会在后面的开示中分析名色。
4.The slowdown was worse than economists expected but is likely to be viewed by the Federal Reserve as a prelude to a gradual recovery.
这种经济放缓程度要低于经济学家的预期，但美联储（FederalReserve）可能将其视为经济逐渐复苏的前奏。
5.Between April and June businesses sharply increased the number of hours worked by employees, which is often a prelude to hiring new workers.
在4月到6月期间，各企业都大大增加了员工的工作时间，这通常是招收新员工的一个征兆。
6.Their gathering serves as a prelude to the two-day spring meeting of the IMF and World Bank, which begins the next day.
这次会议是第二天召开的为期两天的国际货币基金组织和世界银行的春季会议的序幕。
7.Opposition leader Nawaz Sharif calls it "a prelude to a revolution" . He made it to the rally by defying an order for his house arrest.
反对党领导人那瓦兹。谢里夫称之为“一场革命的开端”，他公然反抗对他的软禁命令而发起这场集会。
8.A smile from someone in a shop, say, is a reassuring gesture and a prelude if not to grooming, then at least to conducting business.
比如说，商店里的人的微笑是一种令人放心的表示，如果说不是为了表示亲近，至少是开始做生意的前奏。
9.She paused. Every one was mutely expectant of what was to follow, feeling that this was merely a prelude.
她沉默一会儿，大家都不开腔，等待着就要发生什么事，都觉得这只是一个开场白而已。
10.That means that this good-bye is both a good-bye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.
这意味着这“再见”不但是对过去上万年的再见，也是对未来来开序幕。