柯林斯詞典repetition /?r?p??t???n/ (repetitions) 1. N-VAR If there is a repetition of an event, usually an undesirable event, it happens again. (尤指令人不快的事情) 重演 Today the city government has taken measures to prevent a repetition of last year's confrontation. 今天市政府已經(jīng)采取了措施來防止去年的沖突重演。2. N-VAR Repetition means using the same words again. 重復(fù)的語句 He could also have cut out much of the repetition and thus saved many pages. 他本來也可以刪掉很多重復(fù)的語句，省去很多頁數(shù)。 返回 repetition劍橋詞典C2 [ 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞：沒有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 ] the act of doing or saying something again 重復(fù)；重做；重說 His books are full of repetition. 他的那些書都是在翻來覆去寫同樣的東西。 [ 可數(shù)名詞：有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 ] something that happens in the same way as something that happened before 重現(xiàn)；重復(fù)；重做 We want to prevent a repetition of last summer's fires , which destroyed more than 500,000 acres of land . 去年夏天的火災(zāi)毀了超過50萬英畝地，我們要防止此類火災(zāi)再次發(fā)生。 例句 We hope to avoid a repetition of last year's fiasco .We don't want a repetition of yesterday's scenes .The job involved the endless repetition of two or three simple tasks .Try to avoid unnecessary repetition when stating your points .His speeches show a marked preference for repetition, that tedious rhetorical device . 返回 repetition