| 单词 | recapitulate |
| 释义 | re·ca·pit·u·late /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃəleɪt/ verb [intransitive, transitive] formalREPEAT to repeat the main points of something that has just been said 扼要重述；概括 SYN recap —recapitulation /ˌriːkəpɪtʃəˈleɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusrecapitulate• This Republican coup recapitulated a pattern that had been in operation since the beginning of the 1990s.• To recapitulate, all development rights and values were vested in the state.• To understand why this is so let us recapitulate for a moment.• And just to sketch in the background, could you recapitulate for us?• Now, Darwin at this time is explicitly taking each organism's ontogeny to recapitulate its phylogeny.• It serves no earthly use to recapitulate the damage that they do, and which we know they do.• The growth of the human embryo recapitulated the history of animal life as revealed by the fossil record.• It would be tedious to recapitulate the substance of Addison's tributes.Origin recapitulate (1500-1600) Late Latin past participle of recapitulare “to restate by headings”, from Latin capitulum “division of a book”re·ca·pit·u·late verbChineseSyllable of the something points to repeat main that Corpus |
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