prefigure
v.预示
难易程度:
prefigure为短语/超纲词汇
词形变化:
动词过去式:prefigured 过去分词:prefigured 现在分词:prefiguring 第三人称单数:prefigures 名词:prefigurativeness 副词:prefiguratively 形容词:prefigurative
近义词, 同义词
prefigure
/,pri:'fɪgə(r); [US] -gjər; pri`fɪˇjɚ/ v (fml 文)
1 [Tn] represent beforehand (sth that will happen in the future); foreshadow 预示(某事物将发生); 预兆
*worrying events that may prefigure a period of economic recession 可能显示要出现一段经济衰退时期的令人担心的情况.
2 [Tn, Tf, Tw] picture (sth) to oneself beforehand; imagine 设想(某事物); 想像.
prefigure
v [T]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Late Latin;Origin: praefigurare, from Latin figurare 'to shape, picture']
formal to be a sign that something will happen later