| 单词 | repeat |
| 释义 | repeat (once / 43 pages) vn You can use the word repeat for things that happen again. You can use the word repeat for things that happen again. When you repeat, you do or say the same thing more than once. Sometimes you need to repeat what you said because someone didn’t hear it or understand it the first time, and other times you might repeat a statement for emphasis — you say it twice to really get your point across; in some cases you'll get "I heard you the first time" in return. Doing something over is another way to repeat, as when you repeat a test or draw a smiley face all over your notebooks in a repeat pattern. WORD FAMILYrepeat: repeatable, repeated, repeater, repeating, repeats, repetition, repetitive+/repeatable: unrepeatable/repeated: repeatedly/repeater: repeaters/repeating: repeatings/repetition: repetitions, repetitious/repetitious: repetitiously, repetitiousness/repetitive: nonrepetitive, repetitively, repetitiveness USAGE EXAMPLESI am remembering how my mother lived with breast cancer for 14 years, through two mastectomies and repeated chemotherapy and radiation. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) He rubbed his hands together and kept repeating those words: “It hurts.” Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) “This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1v say, state, or perform again Syn|Hypo|Hyper ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, restate, retell perseverate psychology: repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus dittorepeat an action or statement dwell, harpcome back to interpret, render, translaterestate (words) from one language into another language paraphrase, rephrase, rewordexpress the same message in different words resume, sum up, summarise, summarizegive a summary (of) cite, quoterepeat a passage from retranslatetranslate again mistranslatetranslate incorrectly glossprovide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase Latinise, Latinizetranslate into Latin translateexpress, as in simple and less technical language abstractgive an abstract (of) precismake a summary (of) docketmake a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list recap, recapitulatesummarize briefly misquotequote incorrectly tell let something be known 2v say again or imitate Syn|Hypo|Hyper echo recite repeat aloud from memory cuckoorepeat monotonously, like a cuckoo repeats his call reechorepeat back like an echo parrotrepeat mindlessly regurgitate, reproducerepeat after memorization spell, spell outorally recite the letters of or give the spelling of sayrecite or repeat a fixed text rattle down, rattle off, reel off, roll off, spiel offrecite volubly or extravagantly countname or recite the numbers in ascending order emit, let loose, let out, utter express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) 3v make or do or perform again Syn|Hypo|Hyper double, duplicate, reduplicate, replicate copy, replicate reproduce or make an exact copy of recapitulaterepeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life geminate, reduplicateform by reduplication reproduce make a copy or equivalent of 4v repeat an earlier theme of a composition Syn|Hyper recapitulate, reprise, reprize play, spiel replay (as a melody) 5v do over Syn|Hyper take over act, move perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) 6v happen or occur again Syn|Hypo|Hyper recur iterate run or be performed again cyclerecur in repeating sequences come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place come to pass 7n an event that repeats the events today were a repeat of yesterday's Syn|Hypo|Hyper repetition sequence several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys cyclea periodically repeated sequence of events rematch, replaysomething (especially a game) that is played again recurrence, returnhappening again (especially at regular intervals) merry-go-rounda never-ending cycle of activities and events (especially when they seem to have little purpose) samsara(Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth atavism, reversion, throwbacka reappearance of an earlier characteristic flashbackan unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier) periodic event, recurrent event an event that recurs at intervals |
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