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单词 repeat
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
re•peat /rɪˈpit/USA pronunciation   v. 
  1. to say or do again:[+ object]He repeated his words. If you don't learn from your mistakes you are likely to repeat them.
  2. to utter after another person has uttered words, inflections, etc.: [+ object]Now repeat the Latin forms of the verb "to be'' after me.[used with quotations]Now, repeat, "Sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt.''
  3. to tell (something heard) to another:[+ object]I asked her not to repeat what I was about to tell her.
  4. to undergo again:[+ object]History seems to repeat itself.
  5. to appear again in taste after being eaten:[no object]Onions always seem to repeat on me.

n. [countable]
  1. the act of repeating.
  2. something repeated, as a television program that has been broadcast at least once before.
re•peat•er, n. [countable]See -pet-.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
re•peat  (ri pēt),USA pronunciation v.t. 
  1. to say or utter again (something already said):to repeat a word for emphasis.
  2. to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another:to repeat a sentence after the teacher.
  3. to reproduce (utterances, sounds, etc.) in the manner of an echo, a phonograph, or the like.
  4. to tell (something heard) to another or others.
  5. to do, make, or perform again:to repeat an action.
  6. to go through or undergo again:to repeat an experience.

v.i. 
  1. to do or say something again.
  2. to cause a slight regurgitation:The onions I ate are repeating on me.
  3. Governmentto vote illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.

n. 
  1. the act of repeating.
  2. something repeated;
    repetition.
  3. a duplicate or reproduction of something.
  4. a decorative pattern repeated, usually by printing, on a textile or the like.
  5. Music and Dance
    • a passage to be repeated.
    • a sign, as a vertical arrangement of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.
  6. Show Businessa radio or television program that has been broadcast at least once before.
  • Latin repetere to attack again, demand return of, equivalent. to re- re- + petere to reach towards, seek (compare perpetual, petulant)
  • Middle French repeter
  • Middle English repeten (verb, verbal) 1325–75
re•peata•ble, adj. 
re•peata•bili•ty, n. 
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged iterate, recite, rehearse.
    • 1, 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged Repeat, recapitulate, reiterate refer to saying a thing more than once. To repeat is to do or say something over again:to repeat a question, an order.To recapitulate is to restate in brief form, to summarize, often by repeating the principal points in a discourse:to recapitulate an argument.To reiterate is to do or say something over and over again, to repeat insistently:to reiterate a refusal, a demand.
    • 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged echo, reecho.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
repeat /rɪˈpiːt/ vb
  1. to do or experience (something) again once or several times
  2. (intransitive) to occur more than once: the last figure repeats
  3. (tr; may take a clause as object) to reproduce (the words, sounds, etc) uttered by someone else; echo
  4. (transitive) to utter (a poem, speech, etc) from memory; recite
  5. (intransitive) (of food) to be tasted again after ingestion as the result of belching or slight regurgitation
  6. to belch
  7. (tr; may take a clause as object) to tell to another person (the words, esp secrets, imparted to one by someone else)
  8. (intransitive) (of a clock) to strike the hour or quarter-hour just past, when a spring is pressed
  9. (intransitive) US to vote (illegally) more than once in a single election
  10. repeat oneselfto say or do the same thing more than once, esp so as to be tedious
n
  1. the act or an instance of repeating
  2. (as modifier): a repeat performance
  3. a word, action, etc, that is repeated
  4. an order made out for goods, provisions, etc, that duplicates a previous order
  5. a further broadcast of a programme, film, etc, which has been broadcast before
  6. a passage that is an exact restatement of the passage preceding it
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere to seek again, from re- + petere to seek

reˈpeatable adj USAGE
Since again is part of the meaning of repeat, one should not say something is repeated again

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