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prefigure

/pree-fig-yer/US // priˈfɪg yər //UK // (priːˈfɪɡə) //

预设,预置,预先设定,预设的

Related Words

foreshadow预示着,预示,前兆typify典型化,典型的,典型,典型地foretell预示着,预示,预言presage预言,预示着,预见,预示suggest建议,暗示,提出建议,提议adumbrate润饰,润物细无声,润色,润饰的indicate表示,显示,表明,指示imagine想象,想象一下,想像,想象力symbolize象征,标志着,象征着,标志type类型,种类,型

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pre·fig·ured, pre·fig·ur·ing.

    • : to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
    • : to picture or represent to oneself beforehand; imagine.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
foreshadow预示着,预示,前兆foretell预示着,预示,预言presage预言,预示着,预见,预示typify典型化,典型的,典型,典型地adumbrate润饰,润物细无声,润色,润饰的imagine想象,想象一下,想像,想象力indicate表示,显示,表明,指示suggest建议,暗示,提出建议,提议symbolize象征,标志着,象征着,标志type类型,种类,型

Examples

  • The querulous, interconnected pamphlets printed in seventeenth-century Europe prefigure the culture of modern blogging.

  • We must see him through some lenses—we must prefigure his immortality.

  • The friendships of young girls prefigure the closer relations which will one day come in and dissolve their earlier intimacies.

  • He had tried feebly to prefigure this face, but never had his visioning approached the actual in its majestic, still beauty.

  • Let the fact of this great gift prefigure to us the august office of Woman.

  • May it faintly prefigure the unending blackness of that eternal night you have chosen as your future portion.

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