foreword

序文、まえがき

本の冒頭にある短い紹介文で、著者以外の人が書くことも多い。

やさしい英語で： A short introduction at the beginning of a book, often written by someone other than its author.

• The book has a short foreword.
• A famous scientist wrote the foreword to her book.
• Did you read the foreword before starting the first chapter?

使い方： foreword to something (He wrote the foreword to this collection of stories.)

類義語： introduction

よく使う表現： write a foreword, foreword to something, short foreword