单词 | memoir |
释义 | mem·oir 1. < wrote a memoir on the subject for his royal master > 2. a. < a satirical memoir of the city of his birth — Saxe Commins > — usually used in plural < have written memoirs of the event — Ruth McKenney > b. < a best-selling memoir that a duke paid a fortune to keep unpublished — New York Herald Tribune 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 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. < the work described and discussed in this memoir represents a first-class investigation — J.A.Steers > b. memoirs plural |
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