overtures
英 [ˈəʊvətjʊəz]
美 [ˈoʊvərˌtʃʊrz]
n. (歌剧或芭蕾舞的)序曲，前奏曲; 友好姿态; 建议
overture的第三人称单数和复数
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.- 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。
- The programme opened with the overture to Wagner's Flying Dutchman.
- 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.- 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。 - 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。
- He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship...
双语例句
- He also denounced Mr Obama's recent overtures toward Cuba.
他还谴责了奥巴马总统近来对古巴的友好姿态。 - President Obama has made several overtures to Iran since taking office-part of his outreach to the Muslim world.
奥巴马总统自从上任以来已经向伊朗做出几次提议，这也是向穆斯林世界做出友善表示的一部分。 - They've been making overtures to a big Japanese company in the hope of setting up a joint deal.
他们一直表示希望与日本一家大公司建立贸易合作关系。 - She defended President Obama's overtures towards Presidents Chavez in Venezuela, saying that efforts to isolate anti-American leaders had only made them more receptive to other powers.
她为奥巴马总统关于委内瑞拉总统查韦斯的建议辩护，说对反美国的领导人的隔绝只是让他们更能接纳其他的势力。 - To their surprise, the overtures may have served as a catalyst to bring about the very outcome they were intended to prevent.
让他们意外的是，这些建议可能成了一剂催化剂，催生了他们本想防止的结果。 - In other words, the famous US-Russia-China triangle Nixon and Kissinger created by their path-breaking overtures to Beijing in the early1970s is completely reversed.
换言之，尼克松和基辛格于上世纪七十年代在北京的开创性姿态所缔造的著名美-俄-中三角已经完全逆转。 - On this same day, the first peace overtures from Rome were made.
就在同一天，罗马第一次提出媾和倡议。 - Make overtures of friendship to the new neighbours.
对新邻居表示友好。 - They made peace overtures to us.
他们向我们提出和平的倡议。 - Second Treasury permanent secretary at the age of just 38, he has rejected overtures from investment banks anxious to tap his mathematical mind and contacts book.
年仅38岁时，他就成为英国财政部第二常务次官。他拒绝了垂涎其数学才华和人际关系网的投资银行的邀请。