Exordium

(noun.) (rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse.

伯尼编辑

• With which brief professional exordium, he entered on the history of the friendly move, and truly recounted it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I grow impatient at the length of your exordium. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This exordium, and Miss Pross's two hands in quite agonised entreaty clasping his, decided Mr. Cruncher. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

杰米整理