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单词 memoir
释义
memoirmem‧oir /ˈmemwɑː $ -wɑːr/ ●○○ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINmemoir
Origin:
1600-1700 French mémoire ‘memory’, from Latin memoria; MEMORY
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • And I have written a memoir trying to explain my ongoing fascination with her life and work.
  • He was always talking about those memoirs.
  • In his memoirs Eden wrote: I had long wished to bring National Service to an end.
  • In the memoirs he recollected his response as follows: Three solutions are conceivable.
  • Race is one of the issues Bradley has grappled with throughout his life, he writes in his memoir.
  • The diary of this trip is Jaynes' droll and artfully composed memoir.
  • Yet the memoirs of these survivors, their dirge, is rarely inscribed in the chroniclers' sentimental journeys.
  • Zab finds herself using the now obsolete narrative conventions of the memoir.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· He was a great and prolific writer of everything from poems and personal memoirs to dazzling essays on painting and photography.
VERB
· Teall's aim was to publish the map and memoir of an area simultaneously and in some cases this was achieved.· Bulger is also leaving behind bruised feelings on Beacon Hill because of his soon-to-be published memoirs.· The Soil Survey of Great Britain publishes maps and memoirs which provide information on soil types and conditions.· In 1924 she published a short memoir of her husband.
· This freed the geologists from this task and gave them more time to write memoirs.· It occurred to her to write a memoir.· Good progress was made with writing the sheet memoir.· But purely as a piece of writing, her memoir noir is an ingenue performance.· A fighter to the end, he was looking forward with some relish to writing his memoirs.· He no longer wishes to emigrate and is planning to write his memoirs.· Race is one of the issues Bradley has grappled with throughout his life, he writes in his memoir.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounmemorialmemorymemomemoirmemorabiliamemorandumadjectivememorablememorialimmemorialverbmemorizememorializeadverbmemorably
1memoirs [plural] a book by someone important and famous in which they write about their life and experiences:  Lady Thatcher had just published her memoirs.2formal a short piece of writing about a person or place that you knew well, or an event that you experienced
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