memento
memento 英 [məˈmentəʊ] 美 [məˈmentoʊ]
n. 纪念品，引起回忆的东西
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，引起回忆的东西
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1. I retrieved a small piece from the ruins as a memento – an undistinguished chunk of cast concrete decoration.
于是我从碎石堆里捡拾了一块作为纪念品——一块废弃的难以辨认的水泥装饰品。
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2. If you plan to pack a couple of credit cards and head overseas, brace yourself for an unpleasant travel memento: Extra charges on your credit card bill.
如果你想带上几张卡可以出发去国外了，在国外再买些不实用的纪念品：你这是在为你的信用卡账单累积额外费用呢。
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3. Keep a personal memento or two on your desk, but make sure the items add meaning to your life, like a family picture or an object that makes you smile or reflect.
放一两件私人纪念品在台上，确保只是对你的人生而言意义非凡的，比如家庭相片或让你微笑或感动的小物件。
- 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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