lede
noun [ C ] US (also lead) uk/liːd/ us/liːd/
media specialized （新闻稿）导语
the first sentence or paragraph of a news article that gives the main point or points of the story
The lede reads: “More than four out of every five professors use social media." 导语写道：“超过五分之四的教授使用社交媒体。”
The newspaper put the nominal figure rather than the inflation-adjusted figure in its headline and its lede. 该报将名义数字而不是按通胀调整的数字放在其标题和导语中。
- More examples
- The lede on the column contained a key factual error.
- The problem with the word “unprecedented” in the lede is that the campaign is new in Boston, but not elsewhere.
- The lede of the New York Times story simply cannot be reconciled with what the company is saying.
Idiom
bury the ledeidiom media specialized把新闻最重要的部分放在文章不显眼处;忽略重点
to not give emphasis to the most important point of a news story, for example by putting it far down in the article
Do you think the Times buried the lede on this one? 你是不是觉得《泰晤士报》在这则新闻的报道上没抓住重点？
They use journalistic tricks such as" burying the lede" (dropping real news to the eighth paragraph). 他们使用新闻技巧，例如“埋没要点”（将真实新闻下放到文章末端）。