| 单词 | rerun |
| 释义 | rerun (once / 9801 pages) 1nv 2v When a TV or radio station plays a show again, after its first broadcast, that's a rerun. You may have grown up watching reruns of the shows your parents loved when they were kids. Use rerun as a noun, for the show itself, or a verb, to describe the process of rebroadcasting it: "They rerun this movie every year at Christmas time." When someone used this word in the early nineteenth century, they were talking about races being rerun, or run again. It was first used to mean "television rebroadcast" around 1955. WORD FAMILYrerun: reran, rerunning, reruns+/forerunner: forerunners/overrun: overran, overrunning, overruns/run: overrun, ran, rerun, runned, runner, running, runny, runs/runner: forerunner, runners/running: runningly, runnings/runny: runnier, runniness USAGE EXAMPLESIf a casual viewer finds a tinge of rerun in this semifinal doubleheader of No. 1 Alabama vs. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The rerun was ordered following complaints about voting irregularities from the opposition Social Democrats. Seattle Times(Dec 25, 2016) When people who only watch Sabbath prestige, college football, and Magnum reruns start talking about “the best show on television,” I reach for my remote. Slate(Dec 21, 2016) 1 1n a program that is broadcast again she likes to watch `I love Lucy' reruns Hyper broadcast, program, programme a radio or television show 2v broadcast again, as of a film Syn|Hyper rebroadcast air, beam, broadcast, send, transmit broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television 3v rerun a performance of a play, for example Hyper mount, put on prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance 4v cause to perform again 2We have to rerun the subjects--they misunderstood the instructions Hyper run cause to perform v run again for office Bush wants to rerun in 1996 Hyper campaign, run run, stand, or compete for an office or a position |
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