| 单词 | rehearsal |
| 释义 | rehearsal (once / 1029 pages) n A rehearsal is a practice, especially for a performance of some kind. You're likely to be nervous about your magic show if the rehearsal goes badly. When you practice for a play, read your speech in front of a mirror, or go through a dance performance before the big show, you're taking part in a rehearsal. Any kind of practice session can be called a rehearsal, like a wedding rehearsal or a musician's rehearsal. The Old French root of rehearsal is rehercier, "go over again." Originally, rehearsal just meant "to say something over again;" in the mid-1500s it began to also mean "practice a play." WORD FAMILYrehearsal: rehearsals+/rehearse: rehearsal, rehearsed, rehearses, rehearsing/rehearsed: unrehearsed USAGE EXAMPLESConservatives openly touted that bill as a “dress rehearsal” for the future. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Verbal rehearsal of material—the shopping list you recite as you walk the aisles of a supermarket—is part of our working memory system. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Only two complete rehearsals were held of Beethoven’s complex new work. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert) he missed too many rehearsals a rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding Syn|Hypo|Hyper dry run dress rehearsal a full uninterrupted rehearsal in costumes shortly before the first performance run-throughan uninterrupted rehearsal walk-througha first perfunctory rehearsal of a theatrical production in which actors read their lines from the script and move as directed drill, exercise, practice, practice session, recitation systematic training by multiple repetitions 2n (psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory Hyper drill, exercise, practice, practice session, recitation systematic training by multiple repetitions |
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