V-T If one thing prefigures another, it is a first indication that suggests or determines that the second thing will happen. 预示; 预兆 [正式]
The wall through Berlin was finally ruptured, prefiguring the reunification of Germany.
柏林墙终于倒塌了，预示着德国的重新统一。
Turkey signed an association agreement with the then EEC as far back as 1963 that prefigured eventual membership.
土耳其早在1963年就同欧洲经济共同体（EEC）签署了结盟协定，该协定预示了土耳其最终的成员资格。
It was much larger than what people are expecting now, but in some ways the design prefigured the aesthetic of the next few generations of iMac, and even the iPhone.
这个设计比现在人们预期的产品要大得多，但是在某些方面预示了接下来几代iMac，甚至是iPhone的美观设计。
These ideas were close to the programme of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, which already prefigured the principles of UNESCO's future doctrine in the 1920s and 1930s.
这些想法与在二十世纪二三十年代已经预示了联合国教科文组织未来学说之原则的国际智识合作研究所的议程相近。
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