| 词汇 | prefigure |
| 释义 | prefigureWord family adjectiveprefigurateprefigurativenounprefigurationprefigurementverbprefigure pre·fig·ure /ˌpriːˈfɪɡə $ -ɡjər/ verb [transitiveT] formalSHOW/BE A SIGN OFFUTURE to be a sign that something will happen later 预示；成为…的预兆 Examples from the Corpus prefigure• The dialectic between actual ego and ego-ideal is prefigured here in primordial form.• The material in these papers is prefigured in several sets of lectures delivered in Cambridge, Mass., from 1865 on.• Nietzsche's achievement is rather to have prefigured so much of twentieth-century thought.• Eliot's witty 1918 truncation of an Arnoldian phrase prefigures the Hollow Men's predicament.• They prefigure the society and the civilization to come. (1400-1500) Late Latin praefigurare, from Latin figurare “to shape, picture” |
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