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单词 prefiguring
释义
prefiguring
present participle ofprefigure
prefigure
verb[T]
formal
uk
/priːˈfɪɡ.ər/us
/priːˈfɪɡ.jɚ/
to show orsuggestthat something willhappenin thefuture:
Hispaintingsprefigure thedevelopmentofperspectiveinRenaissanceart.
Synonyms
bodeformal
foreshadowformal
portendformal
presageformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Predicting things and intuition
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  • bode
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  • inkling
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  • intuit
  • intuition
  • intuitive
  • presage
  • prescience
  • prescient
  • prophecy
  • prophesy
  • second-guess
  • the writing is on the wallidiom
  • unreasoning
  • visionary
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(Definition ofprefiguringfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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prefiguring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The text offers a neutral catalogue of ancient archetypal structures,prefiguringmodern methods of classification by type used by scientific archaeology.
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This sort of typology served as aprefiguringor an anticipation of things to come.
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In the course of the rehearsals, a particular system of signification is thus put together,prefiguringthe spectators' response.
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The notion ofprefiguringis threaded through the literature, as is its darker double, the charge of unacknowledged borrowings and appropriations.
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His offer of music as a remedy for the encroachment of modern life locates the cure within the illness itself,prefiguringthe solutions of a later modernism.
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Here men have left a legacy of prestigious burial structuresprefiguringthe era of the great pyramids.
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The story opens with a prophetic dream of two eagles fighting over a swan,prefiguringthe love triangle in the story.
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A part of a program played before the title sequence, usually featuring a cliffhanger orprefiguringthe plot of the episode to follow.
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Prefiguringforms of communism can be seen in communes and other collective living experiments.
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Prefiguringthe acousmonium style of sound projection, hundreds of speakers were controlled by sound projectionists with a series of rotary telephone dials.
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Over the following ten years, he participated in many training courses on mechanized warfare,prefiguringhis later role as a tank commander.
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Snger's other theoretical innovations during this period were proposing means of using photons for interplanetary and interstellar spacecraft propulsionprefiguringthe concept of laser propulsion and the solar sail.
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