核心畫面
Think of something being picked up again. A tune was put down two hours ago; near the end of the show someone lifts it back out and plays four lines of it. An actor puts down a part, and years later picks the same one up. The dictionary still records an old, dead use of the verb meaning exactly that — to take something up again — and it sits under everything the word does today. What makes a reprise worth a special word is the recognition: you have met this before.
可以把 reprise 想成「再拿出來一次」。一段旋律兩小時前放下了，快結束時有人把它拿回來，只唱四行。一個角色被放…更多收起
可以把 reprise 想成「再拿出來一次」。一段旋律兩小時前放下了，快結束時有人把它拿回來，只唱四行。一個角色被放下，隔了幾年，同一個人又把它拿起來。字典裡還留著一個已經不用的舊義，意思正好就是「再拿起來」，跟今天的用法對得上。這個字之所以值得存在，重點在那份熟悉感——這個我剛剛遇過。From the word’s history
The source traces both the noun and the verb to Middle English, from Old French reprise, from the verb reprendre, with some senses reborrowed later from modern French. The source also records an obsolete verb sense, to take something up or on again, which is the picture the modern uses sit on.
來源資料把名詞和動詞都追到中古英文，再往前是古法文 reprise，來自動詞 reprendre，有些意思後來又從現代法文借了一次。同一份資料還收了一個已經不用的動詞義「再拿起來」，今天的用法就疊在這個畫面上。
packet etymology_text and sense wikt:reprise:verb:0, Wiktionary source_refs kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1133893680 / 1133906798