introduction/preface.导航词义：前言，序言

1. introduction:n. 引言，序言，开场白.指书、演讲等的开篇，概括介绍后面主体部分的内容。

He explains in the introduction how he gathered the data.

他在引言里解释了他是如何收集到数据的。

The students showed great interest after the professor gave a brief introduction to the course.

教授简单介绍了这门课程之后，学生们表现出极大的兴趣。

2. preface:n. 序言，前言.尤指书籍开篇介绍其写作目的的说明性文字。

write a preface to a book

为一本书作序

The preface gives an overview of the book's contents.

序言对全书内容作了一个概述。

全部

1·The preface of the book includes an account of the author's life.

该书前言记述了作者生平。《新英汉大辞典》

2·Remember I asked you from the preface, John Ray's preface, to figure out who Dolly Schiller is, who dies in childbed.

还记得我曾让你们找出约翰·雷序言中的，死在产床上的多莉是谁。

3·The president of the National Academy, Bruce Alberts, added this key point in the preface to the panel's report: Science never has all the answers.

美国国家科学院的主席布鲁斯·阿尔伯茨在该小组报告的前言中补充了这一点：“科学永远无法提供所有答案。”

4·I must preface my remarks with an apology.

讲话前，我必须先表示歉意。《牛津词典》

5·I will preface what I am going to say with a few lines from Shakespeare.

我将引用莎士比亚的几行诗作为我讲话的开场白。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

6·Preface your remarks with something like: 'I know you'll think I'm silly but in my house I don't want…'

可以这样开头：‘我知道你们会认为我很傻，但在我的房子里，我不想……’

7·Preface your remarks with something like: I know you'll think I'm silly but in my house I don't want…

可以这样开头：“我知道你们会认为我很傻，但在我的房子里，我不想……”

8·Today, I'd like to preface my remarks with a story from my own life which I feel highlights the common concerns that bring us here together.

今天，我想用自己生活中的故事开始我的发言，我觉得这个故事突出了让我们走到一起的大家共同担忧的问题。

9·This book has a preface written by the author.

这本书有作者的自序。《新英汉大辞典》

10·The subject has been referred to cursorily in the preface.

这个问题在序言中已粗略地提到了。《新英汉大辞典》

前言

1·The president of the National Academy, Bruce Alberts, added this key point in the preface to the panel's report: Science never has all the answers.

美国国家科学院的主席布鲁斯·阿尔伯茨在该小组报告的前言中补充了这一点：“科学永远无法提供所有答案。”

2·The preface and the appendix is not so well, but the content of the book is wonderful .

虽然这本书的前言和附录不是很好，但是内容很精彩。

3·The graceful preface was laced by a commonplace maid near the furnace in the palace without any trace of embrace.

这份优雅的前言是由一个平凡的侍女在宫殿里的火炉边，不留住拥抱过的痕迹而系上带子的。

4·I would see it as a preface, or a table of contents, alerting the reader to what the book is about.

我倾向于把这看作一则前言，或一则目录表，用来警醒读者们真正理解这一文本。

5·In the preface to her book, Levin suggests a counterfactual history, a history with a League of Nations that included the United States.

莱文在书的前言中提出一个反事实的历史，一个有包括美国在内的国际联盟的历史。

序言

1·Remember I asked you from the preface, John Ray's preface, to figure out who Dolly Schiller is, who dies in childbed.

还记得我曾让你们找出约翰·雷序言中的，死在产床上的多莉是谁。

2·Some guessed it was the poet Percy Shelley, who had written the novel's preface.

有些人猜他是诗人珀西.雪莱，因为他写了小说的序言。

3·Hoover's book, according to the Publisher's Note that serves as a preface, was published posthumously.

据作为序言的出版商注解说，胡佛的书，是在他去世后出版的。

4·There is also the question of what kind of reader we are that this preface brings up and sort of puts in front of us.

有一个问题，我们是什么样的读者呢，在这个序言面前。

5·I finished the preface in late fall, and the Chinese translation reached me in December of 2008.my U.

我在深秋完成了这篇序言，之后中译本在2008年的12月寄达我手中。

序文

1·When having a new book, I used to read the preface firstly, then the table of content.

书籍到了我的手里，我的习惯是先看序文，次看目录。

2·Chapman's remarkable preface if written by a modern author would at once damn his book.

查普曼那篇出色的序文要是换一位现代作者来写，顿时就会毁了他的书。

3·It is further proved, by comparison between its preface and historical records, that though Tang Lu Xuan Gong Ji, whose proof-reader and carver is south people, belongs to Nian Gengyao s collection.

又通过序文和历史事实的对比研究得出，《唐陆宣公集》虽然是年羹尧的家刻本，校订者和刻工都是南方人，但却刻竣于陕西。

4·It is paid attention to more and more that the academia studies about the preface in recent years, it is sure to achieve to obtain, but still there is a defect...

近年来学术界对序文研究越来越重视，取得了一定成就，但还存在缺陷。

作序

1·Because Ron Paul is one of the few men in public life who truly understands the problem and is willing to fight to cure it, it is truly a pleasure for me to write the preface to this booklet.

因为罗恩·保罗是公共生活中极少数能够真正理解这个问题并愿意为治愈这个顽疾而奋斗的人之一，我十分荣幸能为这本小册子作序。

2·One of my last tasks for the Regular Expression Cookbook was to write the preface, including my author bio.

即将完工，剩余的工作之一是作序，包括写我的作者小传。

3·It was snowing heavily as I was penning the preface for the Route out of Yunnan.

落笔为今年的首展《出云南记》作序时，窗外正是大雪纷飞。

绪言

1·In the preface, it introduces the origin of selecting the topic, limits the object to be studied and briefly narrates the key points and difficulties in the paper.

绪言部分概要介绍了本文的选题缘起、界定了研究对象，并简要说明了本文的重点、难点。

2·The paper was composed of three parts: preface, main text and conclusion.

论文由绪言、正文、结语三部分构成。

自序

1·On the preface of his poetry anthology Mei Zengliang proposed his poetry theory of Ba-bi.

从梅曾亮诗集自序中提出的“八蔽”说出发，来论述其诗学思想。