Now, a foreword is of course supposed to suggest how you should read the text that's coming. And so, if we take it on in that role, let's see what we see.

现在，一个序言当然是要建议大家,去读一下那本书，还有，如果我们借鉴这个作用，让我们看一下这个。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

And I urge you not to neglect the foreword by John Ray Jr., so I hope you read it, the little italicized foreword.

我希望你们不要忽略掉John，Ray，Jr，写的序言，我希望你们读一下那些斜体的序言。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选