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单词 recapitulate
释义 re·ca·pit·u·late
\ˌrēkəˈpichəˌlāt, usu -ād.+V\ verb
Etymology: Late Latin recapitulatus, past participle of recapitulare to sum up, restate by heads, from Latin re- + Late Latin capitulare (from capitulum division of a book, heading) — more at chapter
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to repeat the principal points of : restate briefly : give a summary of
  < recapitulate … the whole situation as I see it — J.C.Powys >
  < a host of writers have attempted to define addiction and there is no point in recapitulating here the history of those attempts — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel >
 b. : to repeat the principal stages or phases of
  < adopted the theory that the child recapitulates primitive experience — H.J.Muller >
  < the individual organism recapitulates the history of its race — S.F.Mason >
2. : unite
 < to recapitulate ourselves, to assemble and muster ourselves — John Donne >
intransitive verb
: to sum up : go back over an argument or discussion
 < now that I recapitulate he was correct with less than one percent error — New Republic >
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