- 1序、前言（名人寫的介紹也常叫推薦序；作者自己寫的開場較常是自序）
A foreword is a short piece of writing at the very front of a book, before the real chapters start. It introduces the book or the writer. Often it is not written by the author: a teacher, a famous reader, or a friend it to tell you why the book matters. That is the messy truth people mix up: a preface is more often the author's own opening words; a foreword is more often someone else's. Though actually, publishers are not always tidy about the two names, and some books use them as if they were the same. It is a book word, not an everyday spoken word. You open a novel and see Foreword, then maybe Preface, then Chapter 1.
From the word’s history
fore- + word, a calque of German Vorwort, itself a calque of Latin praefatio.
fore-（前）加 word（話），仿德文 Vorwort「前言」造的字。
組成fore- (front, before) + word. English copied the shape of German Vorwort, which itself copied Latin praefatio (preface).
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
forewordnoun/ˈfɔːwɜːd/
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An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; especially, one written by another person (not the author of the work thus introduced).
- He closes the foreword by acknowledging that his proposals would have far-reaching impacts on railway staff, communities and industry - and passes the buck onto government to ensure that these consequences are managed appropriately.
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