剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - repetition collapse

repetition
/ˌrep.ɪ'tɪʃ.ən/
noun
A [U]
* when you do or say something again
重复；重做；重说

1. His books are full of repetition.
他的那些书都是在翻来覆去写同样的东西。

A [C]
* something that happens in the same way as something which happened before
重现；重复；重做

1. We want to prevent a repetition of last summer's fires which destroyed more than 500,000 acres of land.
去年夏天的火灾毁了超过500,000英亩的土地，我们希望预防此类火灾再次发生。

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - repetition collapse

repetition ★☆☆☆☆
1.N-VAR 可变名词(常指令人不快的事件的)反复发生，重复出现，重演 If there is a repetition of an event, usually an undesirable event, it happens again.

【搭配模式】：usu N of n

  • Today the city government has taken measures to prevent a repetition 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。

  • Collins wants to avoid repetition 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.N-VAR 可变名词(词语的)重复 Repetition means using the same words again.

  • He could also have cut out much of the repetition 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。

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - repetition collapse

repetition
repe·ti·tion / 7repE5tiFn / noun1. [U, C] the fact of doing or saying the same thing many times
   重复；重做；重说:
   learning by repetition
   通过重复来学习
2. [C] a thing that has been done or said before
   重做的事；重说的话:
   We do not want to see a repetition of last year's tragic events.
   我们不想看到去年的悲剧重演。

牛津搭配语词典 第2版 - repetition collapse

repetition noun

• ADJECTIVE exact | frequent | constant, endless | mindless, rote (esp. AmE) the mindless ~ of the official line | the rote ~ of mythological formulas

• VERB + REPETITION use Blues is a musical form that uses a lot of ~. | avoid, prevent She said I should avoid ~ of words in my essay. | complete, perform (in exercising) If you can, perform multiple ~s of this exercise on each hand.

新牛津英语同义词词典 - repetition collapse

repetition

noun
1 statistics have already been quoted and they bear repetition
REITERATION , repeating, restatement, retelling, iteration, recapitulation; recital, rehearsal; informal recap; rare reprise, iterance.

2 the repetition of words just heard
REPEATING , echoing, parroting, quoting, copying; psychiatry echolalia.

3 she drew back, fearful of a repetition of the scene in the kitchen
RECURRENCE , reoccurrence, repeat, rerun, replication, duplication; echo.

4 there is some repetition, but not enough to detract from the valuable information the book contains
REPETITIOUSNESS , repetitiveness, redundancy, superfluity, tautology.

词源记忆 - repetition collapse

repetition 重复
来自repeat, 重复。