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.
興許是因為這個，結(jié)果塞繆爾請我為他在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反事實的歷史，一個有包括美國在內(nèi)的國際聯(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)排序之間的爭論，在《百科全書》的前言里困擾著狄德羅。

And that is a preface to an idea of computational complexity we're going to come back to.
這是我們?nèi)蘸?要講的計算復(fù)雜度的,一個前言。
麻省理工公開課 - 計算機(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，他將自己和哥倫布相比,因為他發(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.
漢莫拉比法典為我們提供了證據(jù),漢莫拉比在法典的前言中向我們解釋了,為什么要遵守他頒布的法律
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節(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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