repetition解释

1. 重复
2. 重说
3. 重做
4. 背诵
5. 副本
6. 反复
7. 复制品
8. 重复的事物
9. 再现
10. 再演
11. 【音】复唱，复奏
12. 拷贝
13. 重复现象

1. an event that repeats;

   "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's"
   

2. the act of doing or performing again
3. the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

1.(常指令人不快的事件的)反复发生，重复出现，重演
If there is arepetition of an event, usually an undesirable event, it happens again.

e.g. Today the city government has taken measures to prevent arepetition of last year's confrontation...
今天市政府已经采取措施，防止去年的冲突重演。
e.g. Collins wants to avoidrepetition of the confusion that followed the discovery in 1989 of the cystic fibrosis gene.
科林斯想要避免1989年发现囊肿性纤维化致病基因后的那种混乱局面再次出现。

2.(词语的)重复
Repetition means using the same words again.

e.g. He could also have cut out much of therepetition and thus saved many pages.
他原本也可以砍去许多重复的内容，从而缩减许多页。

• avoid〔save〕 a repetition避免重复
• need no repetition不需重复

• boring〔continued〕 repetition令人厌烦〔不断〕的重复

• by repetitions of effort靠反复努力
• with each repetition伴随每次重复

• a repetition of关于…的重复

• Of the new details..he could only retain a few..by continual repetition.

  出自：George Eliot

• I began to cry 'Edward! Oh, Edward!' in dazed repetition.

  出自：V. Brittain

• ☆ 15世纪初期进入英语，直接源自古法语的repetition；最初源自拉丁语的repetitionem，意为重复。