overtures
n.
主动的表示，提议;
（向某人做出的）友好表示、姿态或提议( overture的名词复数 );
（歌剧、芭蕾舞、音乐剧等的）序曲，前奏曲;
例句:
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Their government is making overtures for peace.
他们的政府正在提出和平建议.
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If only the West had been more responsive to his peace overtures in the fifties.
要是西方在50年代能更积极地响应他的和平姿态就好了。
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He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing overtures of friendship.
最近他开始主动表示友好，样子笨拙却又招人喜爱。
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Since then, there various overtures have come from Pyongyang.
来自VOA
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Many protested his overtures to the Israelis.
来自WSJ
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I...made overtures to them about releasing me from my coming options.
来自F. Astaire