Prelims
abbr. preliminaries 预备的, 初步的; preliminary pages 绪言页（正文前的材料, 如序言, 目录, 用法, 说明）
🗣️ 情景例句
Is anybody hungry?
有人饿了吗？
They enjoin us to follow their example.
他们强要我们以他们为榜样。（有些象绕口令。）
I haven't told you that my family made a lot of money in the nineteenth century by making children work 16 hours a day in their factories.
我还没有告诉过你，我的家在19世纪的时候赚了一大笔钱，是强迫儿童在工厂里一天劳动16个小时赚来的。