1The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

她的意见值得反复强调。

他对代表团的再次答复。

1. 1.1often with negative The recurrence of an action or event.
   （行动或事件的）重复；重演；再次发生
   there was to be no repetition of the interwar years

   两次世界大战之间的年月绝不容许重复。

   I didn't want a repetition of the scene in my office that morning

   我不想再看到那天上午在我办公室里出现的场面。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Stories from the Rains of Love and Death consists of five scenes that fold into one another connected by a repetition of events and motifs.
   • That is the experience, a heady repetition, that is immediately overwhelming, but so captivating that you are drawn to the detail.
   • By analyzing the sources of return, however, it can be easily seen that a repetition of that historical performance is improbable.
   • Whilst the textbook controversy could be seen as simply a repetition of previous incidents, the events of April are significant because of the scale and vehemence of the protests.
   • Across a substance common to both, we witness repetitions of political impulses, as if the world starts with the muscle, not with the map.
   • Specific events become only abstractions, so many rather vague repetitions of the same kind of incident.
   • The double is the literary negation of personal identity and the concept of character, just as the repetition of events is the negation of time and plot.
   • I think it matches to the idea of recalling advertisement creativity is set within the economy of time and repetition of an industry.
   • In the repetition of the performance, we entered more deeply into the material within the therapeutic gaze and the relationship that we had established.
   • The body movement that has to be related to the camera movement, and is determined by the latter, separates itself, during the repetition of the scene, from the facial expression.
   • The late 19th century saw a repetition of this process in the white dominions of Canada and Australasia.
   • The chief innovation here is the repetition of scenes with minor but supposedly significant differences, such as moving the room around for a new angle of vision.
   • Stein suggests that the French are more concerned with the repetitions of daily living than with the actual war.
   • The earliest series of prohibitions against this rising print culture date to the late seventeenth century, and attempt to enforce a ban on the depiction of current events through periodic repetition.
   • Being a repetition on earlier happenings, each composition becomes imbued with a solid mass; no longer transitory, these selections are guided along a set path.
   • The many echoes and repetitions throughout the performances carried the audience from one movement to another.
   • To us, the present generation, a repetition of these events is out of the question.
   • Teaching solid reading skills, just as in teaching accuracy in fingering, requires many successive weekly repetitions before these are developed into skills and habits.
   • Ferguson focuses his attention on the repetitions and little changes involved in the drawn-out affair that is the filming of a Hollywood scene.
   • Through this measure the chances of success against a repetition of the revolutionary movement were greatly improved.

   Synonyms

   recurrence, reoccurrence, repeat, rerun, replication, duplication
2. 1.2 A thing repeated.
   重复的事物，复制品
   the geometric repetitions of Islamic art

   伊斯兰艺术的重复几何图案。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • She concluded that the repetition of such images ultimately neutralizes their moral force.
   • But the ritornello is also varied in its repetitions: there are two alternating versions, and while the instrumentation remains the same, the violins of the second ritornello play an ornamental variant of the first.
   • Immensely popular with cultivated collectors, Baschenis ran a studio which produced repetitions and variants of his works.
   • Sound repetition and permutation, together with various graphic variants, thus governs meaning in Bergvall's poem.
   • The processes of promotion give a song repeat hearing; the processes of covering augment the repetitions manifold by its own variants.
   • On the other hand, a repetition of similar elements, which does not necessarily occur in figures, is quite essential in order to impress upon us that measured progress of time of which we here speak.
   • Built from simple repetitions of geometric motifs and a limited palette of black, white, lavenders and soft pastels, they confront the viewer with a bold, graphic appeal.
   • She is deeply attached to symmetry, and thus to the repetition and change obtained when images are mirrored.
   • In verse, rhyme is opposed to rhyme, the sounds of one word are connected by repetitions with the sounds of another word and form the sound-aspect of the poem.
   • ‘All The Nows We've Had’ is similarly upturned techno, its skipping repetitions pointing towards a stark melancholy.
   • Watts not only painted countless repetitions and variants in different sizes, but was a poor judge of his work.
3. 1.3 A training exercise that is repeated, especially a series of repeated raisings and lowerings of the weight in weight training.
   多次重复（尤指举重训练中反复举起和放下）
   Example sentencesExamples

   • This is partially achieved by means of the complex series of repetitions - both circular and linear - and reflections and refractions that occur throughout the drama.
   • More repetitions using less weight defines muscles without creating bulk.
   • But not everyone is keen about Horvath's circles, especially Gyrotonic's reliance on weighted repetitions, which, some critics say, can cause muscle strain and unwanted bulk.
   • Treadmills hum and free weights rise and fall to the grunts of gym goes forcing extra repetitions while Washington talks about 12 months of events that seemed to conspire against the opening of his gym.
   • I recommend higher repetitions with lower weights to prevent bulking up and to preserve your line.
4. 1.4Music The repeating of a passage or note.
   〔乐〕（章节或音节的）反复
   Example sentencesExamples

   • About 1500, composers adopted the practice of paired imitation and through imitation, the repetition of short melodic passages in two voices or in all parts.
   • There is always a melody - it is never straight note repetition.
   • Often homophonic in texture and solemn in style, it tends to focus on a limited set of harmonic colors in each piece, a repetition that creates a grand sense of stasis and allows the text to be heard.
   • Double and triple tonguing permit the non-legato execution of more rapid passages of music and facilitate the repetition of notes far more rapidly than is possible with single tonguing.
   • An integral component of McCabe's music is repetition, be it notes, rhythm, or textures.
5. 1.5archaic A piece set by a teacher to be learned by heart and recited.
   〈古〉教师指定的背诵材料