屡屡

屢屢
lǚlǚ
adverb #35,846

Meanings

  1. 1 repeatedly
  2. 2 again and again
  3. 3 time after time

Examples

Tā lǚlǚ dǎpò zìjǐ de jìlù.
He repeatedly breaks his own record.
Wǒ lǚlǚ tíxǐng tā zhùyì ānquán, tā jiùshì bù tīng.
I reminded him to be careful again and again, but he just wouldn't listen.

Tips

usage
More formal/literary than 多次 (duōcì, 'many times') or 反复 (fǎnfù, 'repeatedly'). Often appears in news writing — 屡屡发生 'happens repeatedly,' 屡屡得手 'repeatedly succeeds,' 屡屡失败 'fails again and again.' Both positive and negative contexts work.
memory
alone already means 'repeatedly'; doubling it (屡屡) intensifies the rhythm and emphasis — a common pattern in Chinese (e.g. 渐渐 jiànjiàn 'gradually,' 偏偏 piānpiān 'unexpectedly').

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