rehearsal

répétition

Séance où l’on prépare une pièce, un concert ou un autre spectacle avant de le présenter au public.

En anglais simple : A time when people practise a play, concert, or other performance before presenting it to an audience.

• Rehearsal starts at six.
• The actors held three rehearsals this week.
• Did you remember your costume for the dress rehearsal?

Comment l'utiliser : rehearsal for something (We have a rehearsal for the concert tonight.)

Synonymes : practice, run-through

Expressions courantes : dress rehearsal, band rehearsal, rehearsal for something

répétition, entraînement

Activité ou événement qui prépare à ce qui viendra ou donne une idée de ce qui se passera.

En anglais simple : An activity or event that prepares you for, or gives an idea of, something that will happen later.

• The drill was a useful rehearsal.
• This small flood felt like a rehearsal for a greater disaster.
• We treated the practice interview as a rehearsal for tomorrow.

Comment l'utiliser : rehearsal for something (The exercise was a rehearsal for a real emergency.)

Synonymes : trial run, practice, preview

Expressions courantes : rehearsal for something, emergency rehearsal, a useful rehearsal