repetition

noun

1. the act of doing or performing again

Synonym: repeating

2. the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

3. an event that repeats

e.g. the events today were a repeat of yesterday's

Synonym: repeat

1. (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.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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. (词语的)重复
Repetition means using the same words again.

e.g. 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。

1. 反复：3.8反复(Repetition)用来表现强烈的情感,其强调作用,而且可形成优美的节奏. 3.10回文(Chiasmus)将其归为反复,称之为逆转反复(Antistrophe). 指的是两个语言单位通过互换位置表达两个相反相成的意思.

2. 重现：(二)利用原文中的语义重现(repetition)或给出的定义(definition). 有时文章的作者考虑到某个词义可能读者不熟悉,就常采取直接定义或是用另一种方式进行解释(paraphrase)或是提供该词所指(signified)的特征的方法,这种解释也是一种语义的重现.

3. repetition的近义词

3. 反覆：他们继续抒发对这两种文化、两种音乐共存于英国社会所引起之问题的看法,一九七七年,堕落乐团(The Fall)(来自曼彻斯特的年轻人所组成的乐团)录制的作品[反覆](Repetition)将这个层面延伸到摇

4. repetition：rev.; 重复