单词 | rehearse |
释义 | rehearse (once / 574 pages) v When you rehearse, you practice something. You and your cast mates will need to rehearse for several weeks before you'll be ready to perform the entire two hours and forty-five minutes of the musical "Hamilton." A new teacher might rehearse before his first day teaching math to ninth graders, and you'll want to rehearse before you sing the national anthem on the field before a baseball game begins. If you're nervous about something, like asking someone to the prom, you might rehearse it in your mind. At the root of rehearse is the Old French word rehercier, which means both "go over again," and "rake and turn over the soil." WORD FAMILYrehearse: rehearsal, rehearsed, rehearses, rehearsing+/rehearsal: rehearsals/rehearsed: unrehearsed USAGE EXAMPLESBut I wasn’t dreaming of it like I was rehearsing. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) “You rehearse all week, and then you shoot in front of an audience, like a play. It’s like being part of an ensemble theater company.” Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) More than 1,000 Iraqi Christians attended the mass, which was a superbly rehearsed and performed piece of Catholic theatre. BBC(Dec 24, 2016) v engage in a rehearsal (of) Syn|Hypo|Hyper practice, practise walk through perform in a perfunctory way, as for a first rehearsal scrimmagepractice playing (a sport) do, execute, perform carry out or perform an action |
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