repetition

英 [ˌrepəˈtɪʃn]

美 [ˌrepəˈtɪʃn]

n. 重复; 重做; 重说; 重做的事; 重说的话

复数：repetitions　

Collins.1 / BNC.5293 / COCA.5821

牛津词典

noun

重复；重做；重说
the fact of doing or saying the same thing many times
1. learning by repetition
  通过重复来学习
重做的事；重说的话
a thing that has been done or said before
1. 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。

N-VAR (常指令人不快的事件的)反复发生，重复出现，重演
If there is arepetition ofan event, usually an undesirable event, it happens again.
1. 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。
2. 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。
N-VAR (词语的)重复
Repetitionmeans using the same words again.
1. 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。

noun

the act of doing or performing again
Synonym:repeating
the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
an event that repeats
1. the events today were a repeat of yesterday's
Synonym:repeat

Seriality and visual repetition in his work underline this aspect.
他作品中的连续性和视觉重现强调了这个方向。
In his early poems he makes use of repetition and incantation.
在他早期的诗歌中他使用了反复和重叠手法。
Understanding is not enough. You must also have a lot of repetition.
光理解还不够，你必须要进行大量的重复。
Teach by drills and repetition.
通过反复地练习和重复来教某人。
Saudi Arabia, in company with some other Gulf oil states, is concerned to avoid any repetition of the two oil price shocks of the 1970s.
避免20世纪70年代两次石油价格冲击的情形再次出现，这是沙特阿拉伯和其他一些海湾石油国家一致关心的问题。
This next example shows how backtracking works with repetition quantifiers.
下一个例子显示了带重复量词的回溯。
Her prose style is not always felicitous; she tends to repetition.
她的行文风格并非总是恰到好处，往往爱重复。
It is not effective for data that does not have this level of repetition.
对不具有此重复级别的数据无效。
It can also avoid the common problem of repetition.
这样也能够避免重复同一个问题。
The little hearing child learns these from constant repetition and imitation.
那些有听力的孩子可以从不断的重复和模仿中学习这些语言。