By the end of the prologue , the dimmest reader should have got the point ( speculation is bad ) ; and the same point is still being made at the end of the main text on page 447 .
In the prologue , doty writes , " I no longer think of aids as a solvent , but perhaps rather as a kind of intensifier , something which makes things more firmly , deeply themselves . Is this true of all terminal illness , that it intensifies the degree of what already is ? "
These events may also be a prologue to a longer story .
这些事件也可能是一篇漫长故事的序幕。
Mr kitsch better hope that the prologue grabs the audience very firmly indeed .
克奇最好希望这一次电影的序幕能够牢牢抓住观众们。
Those of us lucky enough to go to the ceremony itself were treated to a 50-minute prologue , followed by a further 40-minute " warm-up " of the crowd , starting at 20:12 ( get the gimmick ? )
Instead , if the past several years are any kind of prologue , politicians will continue trying to hollow out judicial freedom by weakening independent commissions and strengthening the hands of governors and legislators in picking judges .