She prefaces the book with a short account of what influenced her to write it.她在书的前言中简要说明了促使她写这本书的原因。He prefaced the diaries with a short account of how they were discovered.他给这本日记写了序言，简述日记发现的经过。The lecturer began with a short account of the history of the UN.讲师先对联合国的历史进行了简短的介绍。