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。
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(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。