They were stories of a god who violently slays the forces of chaos, represented as watery dragons, as a prelude to creation.

这些故事讲述的是一个神以水龙的形象出现并用暴力杀死混沌的力量，这是创世的序幕。

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For him, reading was a necessary prelude to sleep.

对他来说，阅读是入睡的必要前奏。

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That might be a prelude to bigger policy changes.

而这可能成为更大政策变革的前奏。

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The story of that forced march has long been taught around the world as a brutal prelude to the Khmer Rouge's terror.

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They were stories of a god who violently slays the forces of chaos, represented as watery dragons, as a prelude to creation.

他们是上帝凶狠屠杀混乱势力的故事，以充满水的巨龙为代表，是创世的序幕。

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We, of course, know as we read the prelude to this poem that this is a work consumed with questions of temporal disjunction, with that problem of temporal discontinuity.

当然我们理解这首诗的序曲,这首诗里有许多暂时脱节，还有暂时的不连续的问题。

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This hearty dish is the perfect prelude to a mellow afternoon of kayaking on the bottle-green lake.

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The Ali shuffle, once a prelude to devastating one-two punches, now mean something entirely different.

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Indeed, Mr. Hurwitz regards the Netflix episodes as a prelude to a motion-picture adaptation.

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