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n. (名詞 noun)[U]



          1.    死記硬背

                      Learning by rote is discouraged in this school.

                      這所學校不鼓勵死記硬背的學習方式。

          2.    機械的作法;生搬硬套

                      She imitated her teacher by rote.

                      她機械地模仿她的老師。





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–noun 

1. routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure: the rote of daily living.  



—Idiom

2. by rote, from memory, without thought of the meaning; 

in 

a mechanical way: to learn a language by rote.  





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



by heart, by rote 

   

These idioms are synonyms. 



To know something by rote 

is to have memorized it as if to sing 

or 

chant it to the accompaniment of a sort of harp (rote). 



To know something by heart 

is also to have it—words or tune—memorized perfectly.    

  



　REEVES' COP FLICK ROTE STILL PRETTY GOOD





　

There's nothing voluntary about this activism; it's [rote], [robotic], and trancelike. That stance would seem a little more meaningful if contrasted with some real hippie love, 



maybe a flashback to the days when the commune was a living and relevant entity. Instead, the house has a funereal feel throughout, making the film one long dirge for days gone by.





paren(the)tic 

rote

mnemonic semantic

corroborate (confirm)

He corroborated [my account] of the accident. 

[evidence] to corroborate his testimony

opine

to be used jocularly

She opined that he would [lose] the contest. 

trope

any literary or rhetorical device as metaphor, metonymy , synecdoche, and irony

the movie is a veritable scrapbook of [tropes] from the heyday of art film. 

The brief return to Israel at pic's end [contains] one rapid [visual] trope that may pass many auds by.

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