The preface is much too long.

前言太长了。

Let me read you something from the forward to this book.

让我给你读一下本书前言。

And Kerouac later wrote the book's forward.

随后，杰克·凯鲁亚克写了本书前言。

I read the novel but skipped the long introduction.

我看了本小说, 但跳过冗长前言。

He wrote the foreword for this tome full of 12th century artifacts.

本满是12世纪文物大部头写了前言。

The book begins with a long, tortuous introduction.

【tortuous】本书开头是一篇冗长、晦涩前言。

The Master said, " My disciples, Yen's words are right. What I said was only in sport."

“二三子，偃之言是也！前言戏之耳。”

Meanwhile, Schwitzgebel — who had predicted no effect — will be eating his words.

而与此同时，预测不会产生任何影响施维茨格贝尔也收回前言。

And very importantly like we touched on earlier, your subconscious is always working away in the background.

非常重要是，正如我们前言提过，你潜意识一直在后台工作。

In 1985, Akira's group at Asahi Kasei used all these advances to assemble the first commercially viable lithium-ion battery.

1985年，吉野彰团队在旭化成株式会社利用所有前言技术组装了第一块能商业化锂离子电池。

She's been kind of confusing lately.

她最近有点前言不搭后语。

Make all the notes you want, but concentrate on the mundane housekeeping jobs, like fixing misspellings and picking up inconsistencies.

该做笔记做笔记，但同时要集中精力对付最普通家常俗事，比如改正拼写错误以及前言不搭后语句子。

The author's title, chapter headings, and preface may be useful in this connection.

作者标题、章节标题和前言在方面可能有用。

LOOK AT THE TITLE PAGE AND, IF THE BOOK HAS ONE, AT IT'S PREFACE.

1. 查看扉页，如果本书有扉页，请查看其前言。

Alice B. Toklas wrote the foreword.

爱丽丝·托克拉斯（Alice B. Toklas）撰写了前言。

Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychologist, summarized it beautifully in the preface to his book, Man's Search for Meaning.

奥地利心理学家维克多·弗兰克尔在著作《人类对意义追求》前言中对此作了精彩总结。

Stroeve tried to talk to me about the picture, but he was incoherent, and I had to guess at what he meant.

施特略夫尽量想把见到幅画描述给我听，但是说得前言不搭后语，许多意思都只能由我猜测。

From fat-fingered spreadsheet errors and incoherent interventions in meetings to failed mergers and bungled products, failure is a part of corporate life.

从电子表格中手滑和开会时前言不搭后语插嘴，到失败合并和搞砸产品，失败是公司生活一部分。

29. The graceful preface was laced by a commonplace piece near the furnace in the palace without any trace of embrace.

份优雅前言是由一个平凡侍在宫殿里火炉边，不留住拥抱过痕迹而系上带子。

And she began telling him everything, hurriedly, disjointedly, exaggerating the facts, inventing many, and so prodigal of parentheses that he understood nothing of it.

于是她就讲了起来，讲得太急，前言不搭后语，又夸大其辞，还捏造了不少事实，加油加酱，啰里啰嗦，结果听不出个名堂来。