overtures
英 [ˈəʊvətjʊəz]
美 [ˈoʊvərˌtʃʊrz]
n. (歌剧或芭蕾舞的)序曲，前奏曲; 友好姿态; 建议
overture的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES （歌剧、戏剧等的）序曲，前奏曲
Anovertureis a piece of music, often one that is the introduction to an opera or play.- The programme opened with the overture to Wagner's Flying Dutchman.
节目以瓦格纳的歌剧《漂泊的荷兰人》的序曲开场。
- The programme opened with the overture to Wagner's Flying Dutchman.
- N-COUNT （友好或求爱的）主动表示，姿态，提议
If you makeovertures tosomeone, you behave in a friendly or romantic way towards them.- He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship...
最近他开始主动表示友好，样子笨拙却又招人喜爱。 - If only the West had been more responsive to his peace overtures in the fifties.
要是西方在50年代能更积极地响应他的和平姿态就好了。
- He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship...
双语例句
- The group has been making overtures to investors in countries where it has good relationships, including the United Arab Emirates, in an attempt to encourage them to buy shares, but the company said that it was not trying to bring in strategic investors with new equity.
英国石油近期在接洽阿联酋等与其拥有良好关系的国家的投资者，试图鼓励他们购买其股票，但该公司表示，不准备利用发行新股的方式引入战略投资者。 - Make overtures of friendship to the new neighbours.
对新邻居表示友好。 - The Chinese are nervous, too, about western overtures to Burma.
西方向缅甸示好，同样令中国紧张。 - His dispatch of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke both Chinese-Americans to Beijing as part of a series of confidence-building overtures this year was a smart move.
奥巴马派遣两位华裔美国人能源部长朱棣文（stevenchu）和商务部长骆家辉（garylocke）前往北京访问，作为今年一系列旨在构建信任的善意表示的一部分，此举相当英明。 - They've been making overtures to a big Japanese company in the hope of setting up a joint deal.
他们一直表示希望与日本一家大公司建立贸易合作关系。 - In other words, the famous US-Russia-China triangle Nixon and Kissinger created by their path-breaking overtures to Beijing in the early1970s is completely reversed.
换言之，尼克松和基辛格于上世纪七十年代在北京的开创性姿态所缔造的著名美-俄-中三角已经完全逆转。 - To their surprise, the overtures may have served as a catalyst to bring about the very outcome they were intended to prevent.
让他们意外的是，这些建议可能成了一剂催化剂，催生了他们本想防止的结果。 - Vietnam has been making friendly overtures towards its old adversary.
越南在向其老对手示好。 - Modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures.
谨慎的或者小心的拒绝接近或者拒绝建议。 - This time, though, Mr Kim appears to have rejected any such overtures before they are made.
而这一次，金正恩似乎抢在有关各方作出任何友好表示之前就拒绝了此类示好。