recapitulate

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++re·ca·pit·u·late /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃəleɪt/ verb [intransitive, transitive]  formalREPEAT to repeat the main points of something that has just been said 扼要重述；概括 SYN recap —recapitulation /ˌriːkəpɪtʃəˈleɪʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable]→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

recapitulate• This Republican coup recapitulated a pattern that had been in operation since the beginning of the 1990s.• To recapitulate, all development rights and values were vested in the state.• To understand why this is so let us recapitulate for a moment.• And just to sketch in the background, could you recapitulate for us?• Now, Darwin at this time is explicitly taking each organism's ontogeny to recapitulate its phylogeny.• It serves no earthly use to recapitulate the damage that they do, and which we know they do.• The growth of the human embryo recapitulated the history of animal life as revealed by the fossil record.• It would be tedious to recapitulate the substance of Addison's tributes.Origin recapitulate (1500-1600) Late Latin past participle of recapitulare “to restate by headings”, from Latin capitulum “division of a book”

re·ca·pit·u·late verbChineseSyllable  

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recapitulate
re‧ca‧pit‧u‧late /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃəleɪt, ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃʊleɪt/ verb [intransitive and transitive]formal to repeat the main points of something that has just been said
   SYN  recap
—recapitulation /ˌriːkəpɪtʃəˈleɪʃən, ˌriːkəpɪtʃʊˈleɪʃən/ noun [uncountable and countable]

re·cap·itu·lateBrE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪt/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they recapitulate BrE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪt/ 🔊 NAmE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪt/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it recapitulates BrE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪts/ 🔊 NAmE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪts/ 🔊past simple recapitulated BrE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪd/ 🔊past participle recapitulated BrE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪd/ 🔊 -ing form recapitulating BrE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˌriːkəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪŋ/ 🔊(formal) (also recap) [intransitive, transitive] ~ (on sth) | ~ sth | ~ what, where, etc.… to repeat or give a summary of what has already been said, decided, etc. 重述；概括◆To recapitulate briefly, the three main points are these…简要概括起来，主要有这样三点…▸ re·cap·itu·la·tion BrE /ˌriːkəpɪtʃuˈleɪʃn/ 🔊NAmE /ˌriːkəpɪtʃuˈleɪʃn/ 🔊 noun [countable, uncountable] (formal) (also recap)