She lit the oven, preparatory to putting the pie into it.她把烤箱加热，准备把馅饼放进去。Sloan cleared his throat preparatory to speaking.斯隆清了清嗓子，准备讲话。This was where we were to have our preparatory language courses.这就是我们要上语言预备课的地方....
Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。One of his quirks is that he refuses to travel by train.他的怪癖之一是不愿乘火车旅行.All men have their own quirks and twists.人人都有他们自己的怪癖和奇想....
Music has a special system of notation.音乐有一套特殊的标记法.The following is a notation for relating plaintext, ciphertext, and keys.下面是有关明文 、 密文和密钥关系的表示法.Musical notation was conceived for the C major scale and each line and spa...