exordium
exordium — 名詞
1. the opening part of a speech or piece of writing, where the speaker or writer ge
開場白；序言
演說或文章開頭的引言部分
the opening part of a speech or piece of writing, where the speaker or writer gets the audience ready for the main subject.
The lawyer's exordium was short: a polite greeting and a promise to be clear.
律師的開場白很短：一句有禮貌的問候，加上承諾講得清楚明白。
collocation: a short exordium
Eshe shortened the exordium of her speech, so the judges heard her argument sooner.
Eshe 縮短了演講的開場白，讓評審更早聽到她的論點。
pattern: the exordium of + speech
In his exordium, the mayor thanked the crowd and explained why he had come.
市長在開場白中感謝群眾，並說明自己為什麼來到這裡。
Piotr began his wedding toast with a warm exordium about how the couple met.
Piotr 的婚禮祝酒詞以一段溫馨的開場白起頭，說的是這對新人如何相識。
collocation: begin with a warm exordium
Roman students learned that a good exordium should make the audience listen closely.
古羅馬的學生學到，好的開場白應該讓聽眾專心聆聽。
register: formal, used in rhetoric
- a short exordium
- the exordium of a speech
- open with an exordium
- exordium and peroration
- introduction
the everyday word, works for any talk, book, or essay
- preamble
formal, often an opening statement before laws, contracts, or talks
- prologue
a separate opening section of a play, story, or poem
- preface
written note at the start of a book, not a spoken opening
- peroration
the closing part of a speech, where the speaker sums up
文法句型
the exordium of + speech/essay
用法筆記
Found mainly in discussions of rhetoric and literary style; in ordinary speech people say 'introduction' or 'opening'. The plural is 'exordia' or 'exordiums'.
常見錯誤
同根字
- exordial形容詞C2