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A prologue is a short section at the very beginning of a book, play, or movie, before the main story starts. It usually gives you background you need - maybe it explains what happened before the story, introduces the world, or hints at what's coming. Not every story has one; it's a choice a writer makes. The matching piece at the end is called an epilogue.
序言；（戲劇、電影）序幕
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
prologuenoun/ˈpɹəʊlɒɡ/
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literaturemediapublishingA speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
- “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
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One who delivers a prologue.
- And hither am I come, / A Prologue arm’d, but not in confidence / Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce;
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computingengineeringmathematicsA component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
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cyclinghobbieslifestyleAn individual time trial before a stage race, used to determine which rider wears the leader's jersey on the first stage.
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A liturgical book containing daily readings, including hagiography.
prologueverb/ˈpɹəʊlɒɡ/
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literaturemediapublishingTo introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
- […]harbindgers preceading ſtill the fates and prologue to the Omen comming on[…]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。