overtures是什么意思？

overtures

• n. 主动的表示，提议，（向某人做出的）友好表示、姿态或提议( overture的名词复数 )，（歌剧、芭蕾舞、音乐剧等的）序曲，前奏曲；

例句

• Their government is making overtures for peace. 他们的政府正在提出和平建议。
• Clyde , of course , was insincere in regard to all his overtures at this time. 克莱德提出这类主意的时候, 自然根本不是真心的.
• Germany made overtures of peace [ peace overtures ] to the Allied Forces. 德国向盟军提出和平建议.
• 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... 最近他开始主动表示友好，样子笨拙却又招人喜爱。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES
  （歌剧、戏剧等的）序曲，前奏曲
  An overture is a piece of music, often one that is the introduction to an opera or play.
  例句
  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。
• N-COUNT
  （友好或求爱的）主动表示，姿态，提议
  If you make overtures to someone, you behave in a friendly or romantic way towards them.
  例句
  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。