Comparing American English and British English is like counting incompatible sets of floors of a building. That's why, when you try translating over and over again between the two, it's like climbing an endless set of floors. You might even reach the moon
Although I broke test tubes and played about with chemicals for fun, I did occasionally manage to obey the teacher's instructions as well; repeating experiments that others had long ago undertaken.
Repeating a mistake without recognizing it as one, is the biggest mistake of all.
過ちを過ちと認めずに過ちを繰り返すことが最大の過ちである。
The volcano erupts at regular intervals.
その火山は周期的に噴火を繰り返す。
Don't make the same mistake again.
おなじ間違いを繰り返すな。
He made a firm resolution never to repeat it.
彼は二度とそれを繰り返すまいとかたい決心をした。
The emotion they gave me was exquisite, but I could not preserve it, nor could I indefinitely repeat it; the most beautiful things in the world finished by boring me.