retread

1. N-COUNT If you describe something such as a book, movie, or song as a retread, you mean that it contains ideas or elements that have been used before, and that it is not very interesting or original. (書、電影或歌曲的)翻版[usu sing, oft N 'of' n] [表不滿]

His last book, "Needful Things," was a retread of tired material. 他的上一本書《必需品》盡在重復(fù)些陳舊的內(nèi)容。

2. N-COUNT A retread is an old tyre which has been given a new surface or tread and can be used again. 翻新的輪胎