But a cleverer response is to suspend it temporarily-introducing "promotional" prices on selected goods, for example-as a prelude to a bloodier price war should the treachery continue.

但是明智的反应是暂时搁置价格约定，例如：对指定商品推行“促销价”。以此作为价格屠戮战中继续违约的前奏。

Despite Turkey's retaliatory strikes, which many Turks hope are a face-saving ploy rather than a prelude to war, it remained unclear whether the Syrian shells had been fired deliberately.

尽管土耳其进行报复性打击，而土耳其居民们希望这仅仅只是表面功夫而非战争前奏，但是到现在为止，仍不能确认叙利亚的炮击是否属于故意行为。

First, the author would provide a picture of the post-war years, the 1950s, a prelude to the tumultuous 60s and the beginning of the cultural shift.

第一，作者将概述越战发生之前50年代的美国社会，这是动荡的60年代的序曲，亦是大众文化转变的开始。