overture

英 [ˈəʊvətʃʊə(r)]

美 [ˈoʊvərtʃər]

n. (歌剧或芭蕾舞的)序曲，前奏曲; 友好姿态; 建议
vt. 提议

复数：overtures　第三人称单数：overtures　

IELTS GRE TEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.13967 / COCA.13359

牛津词典

noun

（歌剧或芭蕾舞的）序曲，前奏曲
a piece of music written as an introduction to an opera or a ballet
1. Prokofiev's overture to ‘Romeo and Juliet’
  普罗科菲耶夫的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的序曲
友好姿态；建议
a suggestion or an action by which sb tries to make friends, start a business relationship, have discussions, etc. with sb else
1. He began making overtures to a number of merchant banks.
  他开始主动同一些投资银行接触。

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES （歌剧、戏剧等的）序曲，前奏曲
Anovertureis a piece of music, often one that is the introduction to an opera or play.
1. The programme opened with the overture to Wagner's Flying Dutchman.
  节目以瓦格纳的歌剧《漂泊的荷兰人》的序曲开场。
N-COUNT （友好或求爱的）主动表示，姿态，提议
If you makeovertures tosomeone, you behave in a friendly or romantic way towards them.
1. He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship...
  最近他开始主动表示友好，样子笨拙却又招人喜爱。
2. If only the West had been more responsive to his peace overtures in the fifties.
  要是西方在50年代能更积极地响应他的和平姿态就好了。

英英释义

noun

orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio
a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others
1. she rejected his advances
Synonym:advanceapproachfeeler
something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
1. training is a necessary preliminary to employment
2. drinks were the overture to dinner
Synonym:preliminaryprelude

双语例句

For the infant nation, victory in the war and for the republican principle came as a heartening overture.
对于刚刚出生的国家而言，战争与共和原则的胜利，是使人鼓舞的开端。
Precisely why my next Overture will be overt.
那就是我要公开我下一步的原因。
Go to the overture keyword Selector Tool and enter your keyword or keyword phrase in the search box.
去选择工具，进入你的序曲关键字或关键字搜寻关键字短语箱。
Only a whirling Dervish could dance a Mozart symphony: indeed, I have reduced two young and practised dancers to exhaustion by making them dance a Mozart overture.
有一回我还真请了两位训练有素的青年舞蹈家跟着莫扎特的一阕前奏曲跳了一次，结果差点没把他们累垮了。
Because of this weekly column I receive dozens of press releases and approaches, which I usually ignore, but occasionally a really clever overture will succeed.
由于这种每周一期的专栏，我收到许多新闻通稿和提议，我通常不会理睬这些东西，但偶尔也会注意到真正聪明的建议。
I sensed that this was the overture to an argument.
我意识到这是引向一场争论的前奏。
Overture: This is the age of star booming, this is the age of youth come to publicity.
引子：这是一个造星的时代，一个英雄少年风起云涌的时代。
Three-fours of the people agree with the overture presently.
目前有四分之三的人赞成该提案。
His Overture led to nothing.
他的提议没有得到什么结果。
In the first half of the concert he will sing the overture for "Carmen" and "La Donna E Mobile" from Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto.
他将于节目上半场演唱《卡门》序曲、威尔第歌剧《弄臣》中的〈善变的女人〉等经典歌剧选曲。