外博词典，懂英语单词快速记忆法的在线英语词典
常用短语
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重复模式
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回答指令，复述
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不自觉地重复
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场景例句
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We don't want to repeat stuff.
我们不想重复事情。
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I'm sorry — could you repeat that?
对不起—你可以再说一遍吗？
《牛津词典》
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I repeat that point for each role.
我对每个角色都重复那一点。
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反义词
- vt. & vi. 重复
同义词辨析
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词根： -peat- 追求， 降落
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repeat [rɪˈpit] vt. 复述，背诵；重复 vi. 重做；重复投票 n. （节目）重演；重复；重复的事物
repeat: re-反复 + -peat-追求 → 反复追求 → 反复做，反复说 → 重复，重做，复述
单词家谱
repeat 重复
来 自 拉 丁 语 repetere，重 复 做，来 自 re-，再，重 新，petere，追 寻，努 力，要 求，词 源 同 compete，petition.
repeat (v.)
late 14c., repēten "to say what one has already said," from Old French repeter "say or do again, get back, demand the return of" (13c., Modern French répéeter) and directly from Latin repetere "do or say again; attack again," from re- "again" (see re-) + petere "to go to; attack; strive after; ask for, beseech" (from PIE root *pet- "to rush, to fly").
Meaning "say what another has said" is from 1590s. As an emphatic word in radio broadcasts, 1938. Meaning "do over again; do, make, or perform again" is from 1550s; the specific meaning "to take a course of education over again" is recorded from 1945, American English. Intransitive sense of "perform some distinctive (but unspecified) function again or a second time" is by 1714. Related: Repeated; repeating.
repeat (n.)
mid-15c., repete, in music, "a repeated passage, a passage performed a second time," from repeat (v.). By 1660s in reference to the sign in musical notation which indicates this. By 1937 of a repetition of a broadcast program.
