refigure

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To figure again or anew. transitive
    — The hookworm campaign […] was far more effective in creating and legitimating powerful new social boundaries. Through the rhetoric of the hookworm campaign, poor white trash were partially refigured as pure white Americans, a group that deserved higher status and greater prestige than that accorded to southern blacks.
  2. To duplicate. transitive
    — Ten times thyself were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee ...
  3. To restore the parabolic figure of, as of a parabolic mirror. transitive

词形变化

refigures present,singular,third-person refiguring participle,present refigured participle,past refigured past

词源

From re- + figure.
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