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单词 memento mori
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Definition of memento mori in English:

memento mori

noun məˌmɛntəʊ ˈmɔːriməˌmɛntəʊ ˈmɔːrʌɪməˈmenˌtō ˈmôrē
  • An object kept as a reminder of the inevitability of death, such as a skull.

    he placed the picture in his room as a memento mori
    the skulls and bones on monuments were memento mori
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I own one of his self-portraits from the 1970s, the one with the skull as a memento mori on the shoulder.
    • The juxtaposition of press clippings and grim artefacts offers a memento mori.
    • ‘With every celebratory or positive thing, there's always a negative thing, a memento mori,’ says Gibb.
    • The war touched most of the conventional genres in which Picasso worked, notably still life, whose tradition of the memento mori lent itself to contemporary meditations upon death.
    • One of the few exceptions to the general gaiety is Pulse, a dark, brooding globe with blackened vines and seared leaves, a memento mori that makes you pause in the midst of this feast.

Origin

Latin, literally 'remember (that you have) to die'.

Rhymes

a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, sori, thesauri, tori
 
 

Definition of memento mori in US English:

memento mori

nounməˈmenˌtō ˈmôrē
  • An object serving as a warning or reminder of death, such as a skull.

    he placed the picture in his room as a memento mori
    the skulls and bones on monuments were memento mori
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One of the few exceptions to the general gaiety is Pulse, a dark, brooding globe with blackened vines and seared leaves, a memento mori that makes you pause in the midst of this feast.
    • The war touched most of the conventional genres in which Picasso worked, notably still life, whose tradition of the memento mori lent itself to contemporary meditations upon death.
    • The juxtaposition of press clippings and grim artefacts offers a memento mori.
    • I own one of his self-portraits from the 1970s, the one with the skull as a memento mori on the shoulder.
    • ‘With every celebratory or positive thing, there's always a negative thing, a memento mori,’ says Gibb.

Origin

Latin, literally ‘remember (that you have) to die’.

 
 
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