| 词汇 | prefigure |
| 释义 | prefigure verb[ T ] formaluk /priːˈfɪɡ.ər/ us /priːˈfɪɡ.jɚ/ to show or suggest that something will happen in the future: 预示;预想，预见 His paintings prefigure the development of perspective in Renaissance art.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 Predicting things and intuition augur augury bellwether betcha bode herald horizon scanning hunch inkling instinct premonition premonitory presage prescience prescient telepathy there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom unforeseeable unintuitively unreasoning Examples of prefigureprefigure However, customary agrarian forms of social distribution clearly prefigured urban forms. The text offers a neutral catalogue of ancient archetypal structures, prefiguring modern methods of classification by type used by scientific archaeology. Both these emphases prefigure those of twentiethcentury liberation theologies with their focus on disenfranchised groups and on social justice. In fact, this aspect of his thinking on dream formation may have prefigured some later thinking in cognitive psychology. It is a rare moment, but one which prefigures the end of the work. Apart from composing a lexicon, all a learner must do is select between syntactic alternatives that are fully prefigured innately. This clearly prefigures the social function that jazz was to develop in the 1920s, the decade known as 'jazz age'. This opening seems to, and in some sense does, prefigure what follows. In the course of the rehearsals, a particular system of signification is thus put together, prefiguring the spectators' response. This account contains two elements that prefigure the work's reputation among scholars today. The transformation of charter law in the late nineteenth century prefigured a loss of state power, as more rights were granted to business corporations. In no respect did his career prefigure the double lives of the 1930s nor did his activities advance any personal material interests. Such developments prefigured contemporary issues in a number of ways. The failure of their dramaturgical project could only prefigure that of the larger political undertaking - as is glaringly evident today. Third, they sometimes prefigure unilateral moves into troubles-telling by the oh-prefacing, would-be troubles-teller. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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