preface to

基本解釋

Perhaps as a result of this, Sam asked me to write a preface to a new reprint of paperback edition of the book which appeared in 2006.
興許是因爲(wèi)這個(gè)，結(jié)果塞繆爾請(qǐng)我爲(wèi)他在2006年出版的新平裝本作序。
In the preface to her book, Levin suggests a counterfactual history, a history with a League of Nations that included the United States.
萊文在書的前言中提出一個(gè)反事實(shí)的歷史，一個(gè)有包括美國(guó)在內(nèi)的國(guó)際聯(lián)盟的歷史。
The problm of organization, especially the debate between alphabetical order and thematic or scientific order, preoccupied Diderot in the preface to the Encyclopedie.
組織的問題，尤其是按字母排序和按主題-科學(xué)排序之間的爭(zhēng)論，在《百科全書》的前言裡睏擾著狄德羅。

And that is a preface to an idea of computational complexity we're going to come back to.
這是我們?nèi)蔗?要講的計(jì)算複襍度的,一個(gè)前言。
麻省理工公開課 - 計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)及編程導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
In the preface to his largest book, the Discourses on Livy, he compares himself to Christopher Columbus for his discovery of what he calls " "new modes and orders."
在他最大一部著作，《論利瓦伊》的序言中，他將自己和哥倫佈相比,因爲(wèi)他發(fā)現(xiàn),其所謂的，“新模式與秩序“
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
The law code of Hammurabi is available to us and there's a preface to it in which he basically explains why you should obey the rules that he now is laying down for you.
漢莫拉比法典爲(wèi)我們提供了証據(jù),漢莫拉比在法典的前言中曏我們解釋了,爲(wèi)什麼要遵守他頒佈的法律
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡(jiǎn)介課程節(jié)選

In millennial preface to the mariner books edition America we eat and act, however unconsciously, in an increasingly imperial manner.
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