predicate, enounce, vouch, avow, make_out, lay_down, uphold, assert, declaration, make out, swan, pronounce, aver, swear, assertion, proclaim, certify, give_out, profession, declare, affirm, put forward, profess

prologue

to continue, to replenish

写在著作正文前面的话

long-winded, garrulous, to talk endlessly without getting to the point

the rising sun