On Monday,the ECOWAS mediator met with a Niger government delegation, also in Abuja as a prelude to a wider stakeholder forum on Niger at a later date.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

They were stories of a god who violently slays the forces of chaos, represented as watery dragons, as a prelude to creation.

他们是上帝凶狠屠杀混乱势力的故事，以充满水的巨龙为代表，是创世的序幕。

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Now it's not until the fourth stanza of the prelude that we can fully understand the magnitude of the strange anxieties here.

直到序曲的第四段,我们才能完全明白这种奇怪焦虑的严重性。

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The march was really a prelude to others that will coincide with the so called G-20 summit of world leaders that will take place here on Thursday.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

We, of course, know as we read the prelude to this poem that this is a work consumed with questions of temporal disjunction, with that problem of temporal discontinuity.

当然我们理解这首诗的序曲,这首诗里有许多暂时脱节，还有暂时的不连续的问题。

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And the Jordanian monarch came to the White House last week as a prelude to a new round of personal diplomacy by the president designed to get the Israeli-Palestinian peace process back on track.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

In alluding to the prophet Isaiah in the prelude, Milton suggested that the iniquity of his lips had to be purged off -- burned off, with the live coal supplied by one of the seraphim.

弥尔顿在序曲中提到预言家艾赛亚，就是要表示他唇齿的邪恶,应该被净化，被其中一个，六翼天使用炭火烧掉。

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As soon as Milton describes for us the events in heaven that lead up to the Nativity, he begins the this is the prelude of the poem, it's broken up in to two chunks: the prelude and then what Milton calls the hymn he begins the third stanza of the prelude to his poem with a plea to the Heavenly Muse for inspiration.

弥尔顿一给我们描述引导基督诞生的天堂的事情,他就开始描述,这就是诗歌的开端，分为两部分：,这个开端还有弥尔顿称之为颂歌的部分,他开篇的第三段用了,对天国的缪斯寻求创作灵感的请愿。

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