rerun

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Related topics: Film, Broadcasting

re·run1 /ˈriːrʌn/ noun [countableC]

1 AMFTCBa film or television programme that is being shown again on television 重映电影；重播的电视节目 SYN repeat

We watched a rerun of ‘I Love Lucy.’

我们看了《我爱露西》的重播。

2 AGAINsomething that happens in the same way as something that happened before 〔旧事的〕重演 SYN repeat

The government wants to avoid a rerun of last year’s crisis.

政府希望避免去年的危机重演。

Examples from the Corpus

rerun• It was like a rerun of the reel in which my father was edited out.• We watched a rerun of "The Brady Bunch."• The shows may have been made aeons ago, but endless reruns have ensured kitsch classic status for information obsessives.• The Constitutional Court ordered the Melilla rerun on the grounds of irregularities in the original voting.• It turns out that not all Odyssey programs are network reruns.• This is a process which may take a number of reruns to achieve what we would consider to be a satisfactory outcome.• You mean we could have just sat on the couch and watched reruns to get the same level of cultural snobbery?• I finally conked out at around four, in the middle of a Twilight Zone rerun.

Related topics: Media, Broadcasting, Sport

re·run2 /riːˈrʌn/ verb (past tensepst reran /-ˈræn/, past participlepp rerun, present participle rerunning) [transitiveT]

1. AMTCBto show a film or television programme again on television 重映；重播 SYN repeat

2. to do something in the same way as before 〔以同样的方式〕重做 SYN repeat

3. DSto arrange for a race or competition to be held again 重新进行〔比赛〕 SYN repeat

Examples from the Corpus

rerun• Nor when a race is lost, can it be ever rerun.• How can you be sure what really happened unless you can rerun it in slo-mo?• When I closed my eyes I saw the little boy with the flag again, his death rerun like a film clip.• I could change stadium and team names and rerun stadium columns.• The next step might be to rerun the batch of tests with a fresh aliquot of control serum.• Why not rerun the whole shooting match in every state that was too close to call?• We can rerun them whenever we want to.• I could keep inserting new imperial abuses of power and rerun Willie Brown columns.

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