Overture

(noun.) orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio.

(noun.) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; 'she rejected his advances'.

编辑:塞格雷

• Sherman paid no attention at all to the overture, but pushed forward and took the town without making any conditions whatever with its citizens. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• What was the overture to Guillaume Tell but a symphony under another name? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Tom watched the little lady a great deal, before he ventured on any overtures towards acquaintanceship. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• They had no faith in electric lighting, and rejected all our overtures to induce them to take up the new business of making electric-light fixtures. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I've had overtures made to me lately that I saw were treacherous, and I flung 'em back i' the faces o' them that offered 'em. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But now, when he has made his overtures so properly, and honourably--what are your scruples _now_? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• So he knuckled down, again to use his own phrase, and sent old Hulker with peaceable overtures to Osborne. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The shaking figure, unnerved and disjointed from head to foot, put out its two hands a little way, as making overtures of peace and reconciliation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But I resisted all these overtures, and sat there in desperation; each time asking him, with tears in my eyes, for my money or my jacket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Each of the teachers in turn made me overtures of special intimacy; I tried them all. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• As the silence became painful I concluded to hazard a little conversation on my own part, as I had guessed that he was making overtures of peace. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• You won't tell us what overtures? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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