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单词 nostalgia
释义
nostalgianos‧tal‧gia /nɒˈstældʒə $ nɑː-/ ●○○ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINnostalgia
Origin:
1700-1800 Modern Latin, Greek nostos ‘returning home’ + algos ‘pain’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a bittersweet film of nostalgia and innocence
  • Lamour remembers her first trip to Europe with warm nostalgia.
  • Reagan appealed to the average American's sense of nostalgia for a golden age.
  • There's a mood of nostalgia throughout the whole book.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Anderson combines affection and horror in his version of the seventies while avoiding the trap of nostalgia.
  • But nostalgia is not enough to rebuild a country.
  • He only have our nostalgia for our personal lost Eden.
  • Home is the something always already lost, and the longing for it we call nostalgia.
  • If anything, Teds are remembered with a degree of nostalgia and viewed as something quaint.
  • Morris aimed for a balance of futurism and nostalgia.
  • My nostalgia for a better Britain, for a time that was better for never having existed, had been blown up.
  • Truly I would keel over in spasms of exquisite nostalgia.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto remember someone or something from the past
if you remember something that happened, something you did, or someone or something you used to know, the thought of them comes back into your mind: · Do you remember your first day at school?· Oh yes, I remember now. We met him at the last conference, didn't we?· You remember the way to the bathroom, don't you?· Yes, I remember Janine. She lived in that house on the corner, and she had a pet rabbit.remember who/what/where/how: · Can you remember what the man looked like?· I can't remember how the film ends. remember (that): · He remembered that he had felt just the same way when he first started working.remember doing something: · He remembered meeting her at a party once.· Older citizens remember eating soyabeans during the Depression.remember somebody doing something: · I don't remember him being that good at athletics in school.· He remembers Leonard coming home late at night, covered in blood.
especially spoken to think about something that happened in the past because you want to remember it: · She tried to think back and remember exactly what Jim had said.· Thinking back, I should have been more assertive.think back/look back to: · Think back to last year. Look how bad things were then.· When I think back to how it all started, I'm amazed.think back/look back on: · When I look back on those days, it always makes me sad.· When I think back on it now, I realize I expected too much from her.think back five years/two days etc (=try to remember what happened five years, two days etc ago): · I tried to think three years back. Where was it we had met?
to deliberately remember a particular fact, event, or situation from the past in order to tell someone about it, especially in a law court or other official situation: · David recalled an incident that took place in the family home some 12 years previously.· "I didn't like him very much," Kev recalled. "He was arrogant."· As a child, she recalled, her parents had seemed very happy together.recall what/how/when etc: · He didn't like to recall what a disaster his business venture had been.recall that: · I recall that on at least one occasion I saw him taking money from the office.recall doing something: · Howard sighed. He could not recall ever being this tired before.as I recall (=that is what I recall): · The meeting went very well, as I recall.
to be able to remember something, especially by deliberately trying to remember: · I recognize his face but I can't seem to recollect much about him.· "The lawyers distorted what I wanted to say," recollects Hansen grimly.· I can still recollect every detail of that meeting.recollect who/why/how etc: · Only later did she recollect where she'd seem him before.recollect that: · We have nine children, and I don't recollect that I ever felt the need to hit any of them.recollect doing something: · I do not recollect ever having been to Ohio, although my mother says we went there when I was a child.
to talk about pleasant events, people, experiences etc from the past, because you want to remember them or enjoy talking about them: · At club meetings, we like to reminisce, remembering old times.reminisce about: · I used to spend hours listening to my grandfather reminisce about life in the army.· Lazlo enjoyed reminiscing about his life in Poland before he went to America.
something that you remember from the past about a person, place, or experience: · This place holds lots of memories for us.· Now, his experiences were just a painful memory.· We had to write a story about our earliest memory (=the first event you can remember in your life).memory of: · I have lots of happy memories of my time in Japan.bring back memories (=makes someone think of a happy time in the past): · We're playing the old songs that I'm sure will bring back memories for you.
the slightly sad feeling you have when you remember happy things from the past: · There's a mood of nostalgia throughout the whole book.· a bittersweet film of nostalgia and innocencenostalgia for: · Reagan appealed to the average American's sense of nostalgia for a golden age.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
· He didn't feel any nostalgia for his school days.
· The immigrants I spoke to often had an intense nostalgia for their homeland.
adjectives
(=a strong feeling of nostalgia)· I read the college newsletter with great nostalgia.
(=used when talking about good things from the past that are not mixed with things from the present)· It was an evening of pure nostalgia, as the band played hits from the 1940s.
phrases
· Did it give you a sense of nostalgia to see the play on Broadway again?
(=a short feeling of nostalgia)· She felt a pang of nostalgia for the time when they were all children.
(=a strong feeling of nostalgia)· As I drove into the city I felt a wave of nostalgia sweep over me.
nostalgia + NOUN
informal (=a situation or experience that reminds you of events in the past)· Walking around campus was a great nostalgia trip for both of us.
informal (=someone who likes old things)· The restaurant, which still has its 1930s décor, is a favorite with nostalgia buffs.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· For a moment, Eline felt a nostalgia for the simplicity of her life as she'd lived it in Oystermouth.· She felt some fleeting nostalgia for her morning fire.· William felt no sense of nostalgia for any of it.
a feeling that a time in the past was good, or the activity of remembering a good time in the past and wishing that things had not changednostalgia for nostalgia for the good old days He looked back on his university days with a certain amount of nostalgia. a wave of nostalgia for how great life was in the 1960sCOLLOCATIONSverbsfeel nostalgia· He didn't feel any nostalgia for his school days.have nostalgia· The immigrants I spoke to often had an intense nostalgia for their homeland.adjectivesgreat nostalgia (=a strong feeling of nostalgia)· I read the college newsletter with great nostalgia.pure nostalgia (=used when talking about good things from the past that are not mixed with things from the present)· It was an evening of pure nostalgia, as the band played hits from the 1940s.phrasesa feeling/sense of nostalgia· Did it give you a sense of nostalgia to see the play on Broadway again?a pang of nostalgia (=a short feeling of nostalgia)· She felt a pang of nostalgia for the time when they were all children.a wave of nostalgia (=a strong feeling of nostalgia)· As I drove into the city I felt a wave of nostalgia sweep over me.nostalgia + NOUNa nostalgia trip informal (=a situation or experience that reminds you of events in the past)· Walking around campus was a great nostalgia trip for both of us.a nostalgia buff informal (=someone who likes old things)· The restaurant, which still has its 1930s décor, is a favorite with nostalgia buffs.
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