单词preface
n.: 序言
v.: 为…写序言；以…为开端；作…的开场白
网络: 前言；序文；卷首语
（书的）前言，序言:
an introduction to a book, especially one that explains the author"s aims
为…写序言:
to provide a book or other piece of writing with a preface
以…为开端；作…的开场白:
to say sth before you start making a speech, answering a question, etc.
开始,导致;作为…的开端
作序,写序文
【宗教】(弥撒的)序诵,序祷
给…作序言
序言;前沿
序,绪言;前言;引语;开端
前言,序文;引子;开场白
复数：prefaces
现在分词：prefacing
过去式：prefaced
v.+n.:
write preface,preface remark
n.forewordpreambleintroductionprologuepreludev.prefixprecedebeginstartstart off
n.postscript
A. I find it a great honor to be asked to write a preface to this collection of his essays.
能为他的这本散文集子作序，我觉得很荣幸。
My email address is at the end of the Preface of each of my books and I read all the email that I receive.
我的电子邮件地址印在了这几本书前言的末尾，我会看收到的每一封邮件。
His mother, Jeni, who edited the material and wrote a preface for the book is publishing it at her son"s request.
他的妈妈珍妮为了满足儿子的遗愿，亲自编辑了这些材料并为书写了序。
In the preface to one of his plays Bernard Shaw remarks that people are more superstitious today than they were in the Middle Age.
萧伯纳在他一个剧本的前言中提出这样的看法：今天人们比在中实际时更加迷信。
I should preface my comments with the realization that the age of your girlfriend will certainly affect cultural perspectives and attitudes.
俺得事先声明，恁女朋友的年龄肯定会影响到恁的文化视角和态度。
I was nearing my nineteenth birthday and I did not know how to pronounce the word "preface" .
我马上就十九岁了，可我不知道怎样发“序言”这个词的音。
Then, bypassing the lengthy preface and introduction, we shall begin with the interpretation at that place where the matter itself begins.
现在，我们将跳过冗长的序言和导言，从正文自身开始的地方开始讲解。
Therefore, as Dai said, the subject, though not very new, but the study of the paper very "system clear" (this book "Preface" ).
因此正如戴仁所言，这一课题虽然不是很新鲜，但本文的研究非常“系统而清晰”（本书《卷首语》）。
In his preface, the author claims to have striven for maximum "objectivity" , but he does not claim to be "impartial" .
在前言中，作者声称自己力求的是“客观性”最大，自己并不力求“公允无偏”。
In his preface he claims an "anxious desire to speak the unvarnished truth" . He equips the story with a map, and adds documentary chapters.
他在序文里说“急着要把丝毫未加渲染的实际情况叙述出来”。他在那部小说里插印了一幅地图，还加了一些记实性章节。