| 单词 | rewrite |
| 释义 | rewrite (once / 1810 pages) vn When you rewrite something, you start from scratch, writing it again to improve it. You might decide to rewrite a poem after your entire poetry class seems confused by your original version. A newspaper editor might instruct a reporter to rewrite her story, approaching it from a new angle or including more interviews. To rewrite something is to edit it, but the word implies making significant changes — or even starting all over again with a blank piece of paper or computer screen. You can call the new version itself a rewrite too. In journalism, it was once common for a "rewrite man" to work crafting new stories out of other people's reporting. WORD FAMILYrewrite: rewriter, rewrites, rewriting, rewritten, rewrote+/overwrite: overwrites, overwriting, overwritten, overwrote/rewriter: rewriters/rewriting: rewritings/underwrite: underwriter, underwrites, underwriting, underwritten, underwrote/underwriter: underwriters/write: overwrite, rewrite, underwrite, writer, writes, writing, written, wrote/writer: writers/writing: writings/written: unwritten USAGE EXAMPLESBrad Kaaya rewrote the Miami record book in three years, and is off to a bigger challenge. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) In 2014, the village lost a legal battle with someone who wanted to remove their shutters, so officials rewrote the rules. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) In 2014, Woodstock lost a legal battle with someone who wanted to remove their shutters, so officials rewrote the rules. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v write differently; alter the writing of The student rewrote his thesis Hypo|Hyper decipher, decode, decrypt convert code into ordinary language transcribe, transliteraterewrite in a different script transcribemake a phonetic transcription of revisemake revisions in Latinise, Latinize, Romanise, Romanizewrite in the Latin alphabet brailletranscribe in braille amendmake amendments to write communicate or express by writing 2v rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose Hyper compose, indite, pen, write produce a literary work 3n something that has been written again the rewrite was much better Syn|Hyper rescript, revision piece of writing, writing, written material the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) |
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