| 单词 | reminder |
| 释义 | reminder (once / 1038 pages) n A reminder helps you remember something. If you write "don't forget lunch" on your arm every morning, it means you need a reminder to grab your brown paper bag on your way out the door. A reminder helps you remember, whether it's an appointment, an acquaintance's name, or a grocery list. You can give yourself a reminder, or write one to another person who's prone to forgetting details. The word's been around since the 1650s, and it came from remind, which originally meant "to remember." Later, remind came to mean "to make someone remember," or "to put someone in mind of something." WORD FAMILYreminder: reminders+/remind: reminded, reminder, remindful, reminding, reminds USAGE EXAMPLESBut for many of Mosul’s far-flung residents, displaced by more than two years of war, it’s a reminder of home. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) Another in Ghana aimed at combating drug resistance found that such reminders helped people to finish all of their antimalarial drugs. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) A sign in the dining room is a reminder of the tumultuous construction era: “One long whistle: Preparing to blast.” New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a message that helps you remember something he ignored his wife's reminders Hypo|Hyper phylactery, tefillin (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer content, message, subject matter, substance what a communication that is about something is about 2n an experience that causes you to remember something Hypo|Hyper deja vu the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before memento, souvenira reminder of past events memento moria reminder (as a death's head) of your mortality shades ofsomething that reminds you of someone or something experience the content of direct observation or participation in an event 3n someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided Syn|Hyper admonisher, monitor defender, guardian, protector, shielder a person who cares for persons or property |
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