The chairman made a preliminary statement before beginning the main business meeting.

席商业会议始前先说。

All were silent, expectant of what was to follow, for this was clearly only a prelude.

大家都不作声，等着下文，觉得她只说了个。

Uh, what do you want, a preamble?

呃，那你指望什么，我先说个吗？

And for my new idea, I thought I would start introducing the programme every week – it's always been you, Feifei!

我的新法的话，我我应该每周说介绍这个节目——之前一直都是你，菲菲！

You know, I'd bump into newly elected Labour MPs or senior people in the Labour party and say, you know, as an opener, congratulations.

你知道，我会碰到新当选的工党议员或工党的资深人士，然后说，作为， 祝贺你。

A less formal way would be to say just 'you did a great interview', but it's still common to pay someone a compliment before you deliver the good news.

另一种不那么正式的是说，‘you did a great interview’——你的表现出色极了！但是，告知别人好消息之前先赞扬几句很常见。

It was the custom on Egdon to begin the preface to a story before absolutely entering the house, so as to be well in for the body of the narrative by the time visitor and visited stood face to face.

埃格敦荒原上有一种习俗，上别人家去报告消息，还没有完全进门以前就把说起来，以便等到宾面对面站着的时候，已经讲到消息的正文。