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单词 memoir
释义 mem·oir
\ˈmemˌwär, -wȧ(r also -wȯ(ə)r or -wȯ(ə) sometimes ˈmēm- or ˈmām- or -ˌmȯ- or -ˌmä- or -ˌmȧ- or  ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ or məmˈw- or məˈm-\ noun
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Etymology: French mémoire, from mémoire memory, from Latin memoria — more at memory
1. : an official note or report : memorandum, record
 < wrote a memoir on the subject for his royal master >
2.
 a. : a history or narrative composed from or stressing personal experience and acquaintance with the events, scenes, or persons described
  < a satirical memoir of the city of his birth — Saxe Commins >
  — usually used in plural
  < have written memoirs of the event — Ruth McKenney >
 b. : an autobiographical account often anecdotal or intimate in tone whose focus of attention is usually on the persons, events, or times known to the writer
  < a best-selling memoir that a duke paid a fortune to keep unpublished — New York Herald Tribune >
  < an autobiographical memoir by the dean of American literary historians — Saturday Review >
  — usually used in plural
  < in his memoirs he describes the framework — American Guide Series: Minnesota >
  < a secret emergency fund … for the acquisition of just such memoirs — S.H.Adams >
 c. : a biography or biographical sketch usually based on personal acquaintance with the subject and sometimes having the character of a memorial
  < a memoir of his brilliant pupil … who died early — Sarah G. Bowerman >
  < its spirit is so devout as to make it … more a memoir than a biography — A.J.Nock >
  < a memoir … by his colleague — Edmund Wilson >
3.
 a. : an account of something regarded as noteworthy : a record of investigations of some subject : dissertation, report
  < the work described and discussed in this memoir represents a first-class investigation — J.A.Steers >
 b. memoirs plural : the record of the proceedings of a learned society
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