preface to

基本解释

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.
兴许是因为这个，结果塞缪尔请我为他在2006年出版的新平装本作序。
In the preface to her book, Levin suggests a counterfactual history, a history with a League of Nations that included the United States.
莱文在书的前言中提出一个反事实的历史，一个有包括美国在内的国际联盟的历史。
The problm of organization, especially the debate between alphabetical order and thematic or scientific order, preoccupied Diderot in the preface to the Encyclopedie.
组织的问题，尤其是按字母排序和按主题-科学排序之间的争论，在《百科全书》的前言里困扰着狄德罗。

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。
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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，《论利瓦伊》的序言中，他将自己和哥伦布相比,因为他发现,其所谓的，“新模式与秩序“
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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.
汉莫拉比法典为我们提供了证据,汉莫拉比在法典的前言中向我们解释了,为什么要遵守他颁布的法律
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In millennial preface to the mariner books edition America we eat and act, however unconsciously, in an increasingly imperial manner.
NPR: Rabid Reader: 'Fat Land' and U.S. Supersizing