Resume



GRE 考研

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 重新开始, 继续
• ［英］ v. 重新开始, 继续 ( to begin again after interruption)
• ［记］ re ( 重新) +sume ( 拿起) -> 重新拿起
• ［例］ After tea, the meeting resumed.

Webster Collegiate

verb (resumed; resuming)

• Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French resumer, from Latin resumere, from re- + sumere to take up, take — more at consume
• Date: 15th century
• transitive verb
  • 1. to assume or take again ; reoccupy <resumed his seat by the fire — Thomas Hardy>
  • 2. to return to or begin again after interruption <resumed her work>
  • 3. to take back to oneself
  • 4. to pick up again
  • 5. reiterate, summarize
• intransitive verb
  • to begin again something interrupted

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