| 单词 | recapitulate |
| 释义 | recapitulate (once / 3559 pages) 1v 2v To recapitulate means to go back and summarize. At the end of an oral report, you might say, "So, to recapitulate, I've made three points," and then you name them. Recapitulate is a long, scary-looking word that actually means something simple and easy. It comes from the Latin re- "again" and capitulum "chapter," which comes from the word caput "head." Think of recapitulating––or recapping, for short––as putting nice little caps on all the bottles you've opened up––tightening everything up. WORD FAMILYrecapitulate: recapitulated, recapitulates, recapitulating, recapitulation+/capitulate: capitulated, capitulates, capitulating, capitulation, recapitulate/capitulation: capitulations/recapitulation: recapitulations USAGE EXAMPLESOn a computer screen, a video recapitulated the movement of Zika throughout the world. The New Yorker(Aug 15, 2016) A decade later, Professor Kleitman discovered that this cycle recapitulates itself during our waking lives. New York Times(Feb 09, 2013) Thus the history of the West is recapitulated. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) 1 v summarize briefly 2Let's recapitulate the main ideas Syn|Hypo|Hyper recap hash over, rehash, retrograde go back over resume, sum up, summarise, summarize give a summary (of) 1v repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life Hyper double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate make or do or perform again 2v repeat an earlier theme of a composition Syn|Hyper repeat, reprise, reprize play, spiel replay (as a melody) |
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