Problem understanding 今度一度


I'm having trouble trying to understand a fragment from a dialogue between two
students in the book "An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese".

I do know that 今度 means "now", "next time", or "another time", and 一度 means
"once". But in the conversation between the two students they use 今度一度:

> 加藤: でも上手じゃありませんよ。
>
> トム: **今度一度** やりましょうか。

How should I understand 今度一度 in the previous fragment of the dialogue?




First, 「[今度]{こんど}」 can be used to refer to an event occuring in all of the
three time frames below:

> The recent past
>
> The present
>
> The near future

Though I have no idea what bilingual dictionaries say about this, you could
verify this with any medium-size monolingual Japanese dictionary. Which one of
the three the word 「今度」 refers to will entirely depend on the context.

When the World Cup ended the other day, I said to a few people,
「今度のワールドカップはなんかつまんなかったね。」 = "The World Cup this time was kinda boring, wasn't
it?" (I said it because Japan got eliminated very quickly.)

> In the phrase 「[今度一度]{こんどいちど}」, 「今度」 can only mean one thing out of the
> three mentioned above. That is "in the near future". It does not
> specifically have to be "the very next time" [加藤]{かとう} and トム meet. It just
> means "one of the next few (but not many) times we are meeting in the near
> future."

「一度」 does not have to be translated as "once" everytime you see it. In the
phrase 「今度一度」, 「一度」 just means "sometime".

> 「今度一度」, therefore, means "sometime soon", "sometime in the near future", or
> even just "next time".

