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Перевод: prefatory

[прилагательное]
вводный; вступительный; предварительный

Тезаурус:

1. Three further prefatory remarks are necessary.
2. The prefatory ode, by the poet Abraham Cowley, relates how philosophy has been "kept in nonage" by people who, jealous of their authority, concentrated on words rather than on things, on "sports of wanton wit", on "pageants of the brain ", rather than on "the riches which do hoorded lye in Natures endless treasurie".
3. "Before we retroscend allow me a few prefatory remarks on your pants.
4. And yet the treatment of his characters is not exactly what that prefatory article of his might have led one to expect.
5. A. G. Macdonell, England Their England , 1942 edn. with prefatory note by Sir John Squire, and Folio Society edn., 1986, with introduction by Hugo Vickers; personal knowledge.
6. In a prefatory note to his first novel he told his readers, "Except the hero and heroine, and those points of the work which supply the slight plot of it, as a novel the work itself is materially true, especially in the narrative of sea-adventure, most of which did (to the best of our recollection) occur to the author."
7. Smart's short prefatory note is elaborate and slightly inaccurate, but emphatic on the subject of David's excellence, his consecration of his genius, and his high worthiness for "The transcendent virtue of praise and adoration".
8. "On the pendulum of self-exposure that oscillates between aggressively exhibitionistic Mailerism and sequestered Salingerism, I'd say that I occupy a midway position", explains Roth in The Facts - in a prefatory letter to his alter ego of earlier books, the novelist Nathan Zuckerman, who is granted a letter of reply at the end of this one and a perusal of the intervening narrative.
9. His chief monument is his work in the St Albans Psalter: forty full-page prefatory paintings illustrating the life of Christ and other subjects; tinted drawings of the life of St Alexis and of Christ at Emmaus; the historiated initial at the beginning of Psalm 1; and under-drawings for other historiated initials.
10. Her only other published work was The Metrical Miscellany (1802, 2nd edn. 1803), an anthology of fugitive verse by contemporary celebrities, in which she also published twenty of her own poems (including the hitherto uncounted prefatory verses of 1802 by "The Editor").
11. In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that "perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture."
12. Smart went further than any of his predecessors in this attempt to provide, according to his prefatory note, a version "Adapted to the Divine Service".
13. In a prefatory note "To the Reader" she claimed that her relations were the only people likely to read what she had written.