If there is a repetition of an event, usually an undesirable event, it happens again.
例句
Today the city government has taken measures to prevent a repetition of last year's confrontation...今天市政府已經采取措施，防止去年的沖突重演。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年發現囊腫性纖維化致病基因后的那種混亂局面再次出現。
N-VAR
(詞語的)重復
Repetition means using the same words again.
例句
He could also have cut out much of the repetition and thus saved many pages.他原本也可以砍去許多重復的內容，從而縮減許多頁。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
重復, 反復, 重復的事
That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不過是重復了你以前講的話。
復制品, 副本
He has a repetition of a previous talk.他有前次會談的副本。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. an event that repeats;
"the events today were a repeat of yesterday's"
2. the act of doing or performing again
3. the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device