Nabokov gives the reader four cantos of pale fire , 999 lines of rhyming couplets , plus an editor 's foreword and scholarly annotations .
而纳博科夫在palefire里给读者四章共999行双行押韵的长诗,再加上编辑的前言和学术性的评注。
In the foreword to our report published in february we urged the uk government to " act now ... don 't let the oil crunch catch us out in the way the credit crunch did " .
Last year , a collection of recipes by former staff and guests at the queen mother 's scottish house , the castle of mey , was published , with a foreword by her ever-devoted grandson , prince charles and just reading it is enough to make the arteries harden .
There is evidence in many parts of the world that " people are being tipped into poverty and trapped there by corrupt governments and greedy businesses " , irene khan , amnesty 's secretary general , wrote in her foreword to the report .
John redwood , in the foreword to his report , instinctively takes the point and , as one would expect , emphatically repudiates any attempt by the uk to adopt the euro or to follow any kind of exchange rate target .
In her foreword to amnesty 's report , ms khan argues that in the six decades since the adoption by a fledgling united nations of the universal declaration of human rights , governments around the world have shown more interest in the abuse of power than in respecting human rights .
She said of these new inhabitants of the midwest , " it is perhaps natural that they should be very much interested in material comfort , in buying whatever is expensive and ugly " since they " were reared amid hardships " ( qtd . In the foreword tomy ntoniaxiii ) .
This essay was adapted from his foreword in the forthcoming book " electoral dysfunction : a survival manual for american voters " by victoria bassetti .