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单词 prefigure
释义
prefigure
verb[T]
formal
uk
/priːˈfɪɡ.ər/us
/priːˈfɪɡ.jɚ/
to show orsuggestthat something willhappenin thefuture:
预示；预想，预见
Hispaintingsprefigure thedevelopmentofperspectiveinRenaissanceart.他的绘画预示了文艺复兴时期的艺术作品中透视画法的发展。
Synonyms
bodeformal
foreshadowformal
portendformal
presageformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Predicting things and intuition
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  • intuition
  • intuitive
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  • prescient
  • prophecy
  • prophesy
  • prophetic
  • psychic
  • second-guess
  • the writing is on the wallidiom
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(Definition ofprefigurefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprefigure

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However, customary agrarian forms of social distribution clearly prefigured urban forms.
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The text offers a neutral catalogue of ancient archetypal structures, prefiguring modern methods of classification by type used by scientific archaeology.
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Both these emphasesprefigurethose of twentiethcentury liberation theologies with their focus on disenfranchised groups and on social justice.
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In fact, this aspect of his thinking on dream formation may have prefigured some later thinking in cognitive psychology.
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It is a rare moment, but one which prefigures the end of the work.
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Apart from composing a lexicon, all a learner must do is select between syntactic alternatives that are fully prefigured innately.
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This clearly prefigures the social function that jazz was to develop in the 1920s, the decade known as 'jazz age'.
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This opening seems to, and in some sense does,prefigurewhat follows.
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In the course of the rehearsals, a particular system of signification is thus put together, prefiguring the spectators' response.
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This account contains two elements thatprefigurethe work's reputation among scholars today.
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The transformation of charter law in the late nineteenth century prefigured a loss of state power, as more rights were granted to business corporations.
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In no respect did his careerprefigurethe double lives of the 1930s nor did his activities advance any personal material interests.
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Such developments prefigured contemporary issues in a number of ways.
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The failure of their dramaturgical project could onlyprefigurethat of the larger political undertaking - as is glaringly evident today.
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Third, they sometimesprefigureunilateral moves into troubles-telling by the oh-prefacing, would-be troubles-teller.
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