It has an opening statement to introduce the subject.

它有一个介绍主题的开场白。

We'll begin with opening statements after lunch.

午餐后，我们将开始陈述。

You're $3,000 overdrawn here. You didn't even open up your bank statement.

你透支了3000块 你甚至没打开银行的声明。

And their temperaments were precisely of a kind to suffer from this atmosphere, and to be indisposed to lighten it by vigorous and open statements.

而他们的性情恰恰是那种受这种气氛影响的人， 不愿意通过激烈而公开的发言来减轻这种气氛。