核心畫面

Think of rerun as feeding the same thing through a second time. The tape, the race, the test, the set of steps: none of it is changed, and none of it is . It simply starts at the beginning again, and you wait to see what comes out this time.

rerun 可以想成「同一卷帶子再放一次」。東西沒有改,順序也沒有改。就是從頭再走一遍,然後看看這次跑出什麼。re-更多收起rerun 可以想成「同一卷帶子再放一次」。東西沒有改,順序也沒有改。就是從頭再走一遍,然後看看這次跑出什麼。re- 是「再一次」,run 是「跑過去、放一遍」。兩個合起來,就是這個畫面。不管是節目、比賽、檢驗還是程式,只要是「原封不動再來一次」,都可以掛在這個字上。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives the formation directly: rerun is re- plus run. The prefix re- means again, and run already covers making something go through from start to finish, so the modern core needs no extra story.

Wiktionary 直接寫出這個字的組成:rerun 就是 re- 加 run。re- 是「再一次」,而 run 本身就有「讓一件事從頭跑到尾」的意思。所以現在的核心畫面不需要額外的故事,字面上就是「再跑一遍」。

Wiktionary entry for rerun (evidence packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:205733697:22536, etymology_text: From re- + run)

Three branches

電視重播

把「再放一遍」放到電視上,就是重播。這也是這個字最常被聽到的地方,所以名詞 rerun 幾乎預設就是指節目。

noun · B1

A film or television programme that is being shown again, often weeks or years after it was first shown.

重播的節目

同一件事再走一遍

這一族就是核心畫面本身,只是被放進不同的場合:實驗室、腦袋裡、賽場上。共同點都是「做法不變,從頭再來一次」。

verb · B2

To do something again in the same way as before, from the beginning: a test, a check, a piece of work, or a set of events you go over again in your mind.

再做一次;重跑一次

程式再跑一次

電腦裡的 run 就是「讓程式從頭跑到尾」,所以這個用法離字面最近:同一段程式,再跑一次。

noun · B2

A second or later run of a computer program, a script, or an automatic test, done to produce the results again or to check them.

重跑一次(程式)