单词	prefigure
释义	prefigurepre‧fig‧ure /ˌpriːˈfɪɡə $ -ɡjər/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINprefigure Origin: 1400-1500 Late Latin praefigurare, from Latin figurare ‘to shape, picture’ Verb Table VERB TABLE prefigure Simple Form Present I, you, we, they prefigure he, she, it prefigures Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they prefigured Present perfect I, you, we, they have prefigured he, she, it has prefigured Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had prefigured Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will prefigure Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have prefigured Continuous Form Present I am prefiguring he, she, it is prefiguring you, we, they are prefiguring Past I, he, she, it was prefiguring you, we, they were prefiguring Present perfect I, you, we, they have been prefiguring he, she, it has been prefiguring Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been prefiguring Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be prefiguring Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been prefiguring Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Eliot's witty 1918 truncation of an Arnoldian phrase prefigures the Hollow Men's predicament. Nietzsche's achievement is rather to have prefigured so much of twentieth-century thought. The dialectic between actual ego and ego-ideal is prefigured here in primordial form. The material in these papers is prefigured in several sets of lectures delivered in Cambridge, Mass., from 1865 on. They prefigure the society and the civilization to come. formal to be a sign that something will happen later
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