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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary
- 反复 [fǎnfù]
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1.
adverb
[重复]
repeatedly
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2.
adverb
[多变]
capriciously
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1.
adverb
[重复]
repeatedly
Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary
- 反复 [fǎnfù]
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- 1. repeatedly; again and again
- 2. back out; chop and change
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3.
reversal; relapse
- 思想上有反复
- have ideological relapses
Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary
- 反复 [fǎnfù]
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1.
动
翻来覆去;翻悔
- 决定了的事,决不反复
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2.
副
表示多次重复同一个动作行为
- 反复修改
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3.
名
指重复出现的情况
- 病情还会有反复
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4.
不宜写作"反覆"。
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1.
动
翻来覆去;翻悔
Examples
- 反复解释
- explain over and over again → 反复
- 反复思考
- think a lot about sth; turn sth. over in one's mind again and again → 反复
- 说一是一，说二是二，决不反复。
- I mean what I say and I'll never go back on my word. → 反复
- 思想上有反复
- have ideological relapses → 反复
- 这个人反复无常，很不可靠。
- This fellow is always chopping and changing; he's very unreliable. → 反复无常
- 经过反复的较量
- after repeated trials of strength → 较量
- 演员对每句台词都要反复吟咏、咀嚼，才能进入角色。
- An actor must rehearse his lines again and again, chewing on them so to speak, before he can hope to get inside the character that he is playing. → 咀嚼
- 经过反复讨论，大家心里更亮堂了。
- After repeated discussions, we had a much better understanding of the whole thing. → 亮堂
- 经过反复实验，他终于找到了节省原料的门径。
- Through repeated experiments he at last found the way to save raw materials. → 门径
- 反复思量
- turn sth. over and over in one's mind → 思量
Collocations
- 反复咛叮
- say again to somebody
- 反复修改
- modify repeatedly
- 反复无常
- always changing
- 病情反复
- changing disease
- 防止反复
- prevent something happening again
- 出现反复
- happen again
nciku Note
The adverb indicate frequency
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An adverb is used to modify the adjective or verb as an adverbial adjunct, it should be put before them. Verbs or even nouns ending with character "地" and functioning as adverbs remain to be regarded as adjectives. A part of adverbs can indicate frequency, such as "又", "再", "还","也", "屡次", "再三", "经常", "常常", "时常", "往往", "不断", "反复", and so on.
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