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memento mori

/məˌmɛntəʊ ˈmɔːri

/ /məˌmɛntəʊ ˈmɔːrʌɪ

noun (plural same)

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...

I own one of his self-portraits from the 1970s, the one with the skull as a memento mori on the shoulder.
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.
‘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'.

单词	memento mori
释义	memento mori /məˌmɛntəʊ ˈmɔːri / /məˌmɛntəʊ ˈmɔːrʌɪ / noun (plural same) 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... I own one of his self-portraits from the 1970s, the one with the skull as a memento mori on the shoulder. 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. ‘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'. Rhymes a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, sori, thesauri, tori
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