prefatory

adj.

前言的，序文的；

1. As a prefatory topic in genetic engineering technology, the construction of transgenic bacteria has the good industry prospect.
   转基因工程菌的构建是基因工程技术中的一个前言课题，它具有良好的产业化前景。

Business travellers' perception of service quality: a prefatory study of two European city centre hotels.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING VIEWING OF MULTIMEDIA RENDERING OF INVESTIGATOR MEETING PREFATORY TO CLINICAL TRIAL PARTICIPATION
The collected dialogues of Plato : including the letters
On the Tracks of Symbolic Power: Prefatory Notes to Bourdieu's `State Nobility'
Conceptual Displacement and Migration in Science: A Prefatory Paper
I. The geography of the working class and the geography of the labour vote in England, 1983 : A prefatory note to a research agenda
A Prefatory Note on Responses of Plants to Low Temperature-Stress
GENERA AND NEW SPECIES OF GROUND SLOTHS FROM THE PLEISTOCENE OF CUBA
Prefatory remarks on outcome of sex reassignment in 24 cases of transexualism
A prefatory essay on the perception of surfaces versus the perception of markings on a surface