Skip to main content
EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

prefigurement

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

预设,预设情况,预设性,预测

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

nounomen
Synonyms
augury预兆,预言,预示,预示着auspice祥瑞,祥云,祥子,祥和bodement担保人,担保,担保书,担保金foreboding畏惧,忧虑,畏惧感,畏惧心理forerunner先行者,先驱者,先导者,先锋者foretoken预示,预示牌,预示着,预示性标志harbinger先兆,预兆,先声,先锋indication指示,迹象表明,迹象显示,显示portent启示,预示着,启示录,预兆premonition预感,预言,预兆,前兆presage预言,预示着,预见,预示prognostic预知性,预测性,预言性,预言prognostication预测,预言,预估,预报prophecy预言,谶语sign签名,符号,标志,签署straw秸秆,麦秆,稻草,吸管warning警告,预警,警报,警示writing写作,书写,撰写,写字writing on the wall墙上的字,墙上的文字,墙壁上的文字,墙上的字迹

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.

Level 9Browse all words →