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/ˌriːˈjuːz/
To use something a second time or many more times instead of throwing it away — either for the same job it did before, or for a new one.
重複使用；再利用
過去式 reused過去分詞 reused-ing reusing三單 reuses
核心畫面
You can picture yourself holding something you have already finished with, and instead of dropping it in the bin, putting it back into service. The thing has a second life — sometimes doing the same job it did before, sometimes a completely new one.
可以想成手上拿著一個已經用過、正要丟掉的東西，結果你把手收回來，讓它再上場一次。畫面的重點是那個「本來要進垃圾桶、卻…更多收起
可以想成手上拿著一個已經用過、正要丟掉的東西，結果你把手收回來，讓它再上場一次。畫面的重點是那個「本來要進垃圾桶、卻又被拉回來」的轉折：這個東西有了第二次生命——有時候還是做原來那件事（同一個玻璃瓶再裝一次水），有時候換了新工作（餅乾鐵盒拿來收針線）。原始詞典資料4 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。
reusenoun/ɹiːˈjuːs/
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The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable.
- 2
The act of using again, or in another place.
- Code reuse can save programmers a lot of typing.
reuseverb/ɹiːˈjuːs/
- 1
To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else).
- The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment.
- 2
To use again, or in another place.
- The estimated 2.7 million cubic metres of chalk and flint excavated from each tunnel (and then mixed with water to create slurry) will be treated and then reused to landscape the site and create a 127-hectare chalk grassland habitat.
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。