recapitulation

/ree-kuh-pich-uh-ley-shuhn/US // ˌri kəˌpɪtʃ əˈleɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌriːkəˌpɪtjʊˈleɪʃən) //

重述,重温,重温一下,复述

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the act of recapitulating or the state of being recapitulated.
- : a brief review or summary, as of a speech.
- : Biology. the theory that the stages an organism passes through during its embryonic development repeat the evolutionary stages of structural change in its ancestral lineage.
- : Music. the modified restatement of the exposition following the development section in a sonata-form movement.

nounsummary that repeats

Synonyms

The events which succeeded this fortunate capture are too well known to require more than a very brief recapitulation.
Who has patience for the recapitulation of a string of names, when a group of faces may be placed simultaneously before him?
Mr. Hume entered at considerable length into a recapitulation of the past and present grievances of the Canadians.
Little comment is needed on this final section; there is a recapitulation of the sins of Aholah and Aholibah.
This theory of race recapitulation as applied to the succeeding stages of boyhood may be somewhat more poetic than scientific.