英 [ˈprefəs] 美 [ˈprefəs]
n. （书的）前言，（演讲的）开场白；开端，序幕；（基督教）序祷，序诵
v. 为（书）作序；以……为开端，以……作为开场白
[ 复数 prefaces 第三人称单数 prefaces 现在分词 prefacing 过去式 prefaced 过去分词 prefaced ][1]
preface and postscript 题跋 ; 序跋 ; 序文和跋
work preface 工序 ; 工序控制
Preface by Chief Editor 主编卷首语
Preface to the First Edition 第一版序言 ; 初版前言 ; 初版的序言 ; 第一版前言[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。
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。
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。”
I must preface my remarks with an apology. 讲话前，我必须先表示歉意。
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。
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……’
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……”
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。
This book has a preface written by the author. 这本书有作者的自序。
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。
The first chapter is really a preface. 第一章是序言。
The end and aim of the book is explained in the preface. 本书的目的在前言中作了说明。
In a draft preface to the recommendations, discussed at the 17 May. 在5月17日的会议上所讨论的这份建议书的序言草案中，夏皮罗提出。
They saw the evil of their own time “not as throwback but preface”. 他们将自己所处时代的邪恶势力视为”序幕，而非过往”。
The missing preface for the China translation of Lies My Teacher Told me. 没有序言的中文译本：《老师的谎言》。
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。
Billy would always preface his song by saying "This is for all you chicks." 比利每次唱歌之前还总会来上句开场白，“丫头们，这是献给你们的！”
The authors admit in the preface that they included "Agile" for marketing purposes. 作者们在序言中承认处于市场的目的他们包含有“Agile”。
The preface is written on the surface of the furnace that faces the space facilities. 序言写在面对太空设施的火炉表面。
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。
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。
And that is a preface to an idea of computational complexity we're going to come back to. 这是我们日后，要讲的计算复杂度的，一个前言。
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。
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。
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。[1]