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To recommence is to begin something again after it has stopped. A trial recommences after lunch. Work recommences on Monday. Rain that paused for an hour can recommence. It is a rather formal word, a little stiff for the kitchen table; most people just say start again, begin again, or resume. You meet it in news reports, official notices, and careful writing. The thing that recommences was already going; you are not opening a brand-new chapter from nothing. Though actually, in British writing you still see it more than in everyday American talk.
重新開始、再開始(偏書面;口語多說 start again)
組成From Middle French recommencer, from Old French recommencier: re- (again) + commence (begin).
同家族的字
- commencethe “begin” piece
- commencementthe noun from commence
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
recommenceverb
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To begin again.
- The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.
- [...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。