memento
memento 英 [məˈmentəʊ] 美 [məˈmentoʊ]
n. 纪念品
名词复数:mementoes
- A memento is a keepsake of something you want to remember. You may keep photographs as a memento of a great family reunion — except for that one photo where Aunt Bonnie is wearing the lampshade and singing "Respect." No one wants to remember that!
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- n. 纪念品
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1. a memento of our trip to Italy
我们意大利之旅的纪念品
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2. They gave him a watch as a memento of his time with the company.
他们送了他一块手表作为为公司服务的纪念。
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3. It's where I found the Vietnam mementos.
那个越南纪念品就是在里面找到的。
- memento (n.) c. 1400, "Psalm cxxxi in the Canon of the Mass" (which begins with the Latin word Memento and in which the dead are commemorated), from Latin memento "remember," imperative of meminisse "to remember, recollect, think of, bear in mind," a reduplicated form, related to mens "mind," from PIE root *men- (1) "to think." Meaning "reminder, object serving as a warning" is from 1580s; sense of "keepsake" is first recorded 1768.
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