英语词汇“memory”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	memory
释义	mem·o·ry I. \ˈmem(ə)rē, -ri\ noun (-es) Etymology: Middle English memorie, from Middle French memorie, memoire, from Latin memoria, from memor mindful + -ia -y; akin to Old English gemimor well-known, mimorian to remember, Middle Dutch mimeren to muse, brood, Latin mora delay, Old Irish airmert prohibition, Greek mermēra trouble, Sanskrit smarati he remembers; basic meaning: to remember 1. a. archaic : a ceremony of commemoration : a service for the dead b. obsolete : a historical or biographical record c. obsolete : memorial, memento 2. a. (1) : the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through nonconscious associative mechanisms : conscious or unconscious evocation of things past < semantic reception is associated with great use of memory — Norbert Wiener > < seemed lost in thought or memory — E.A.McCourt > < in memory, one images or reproduces his whole state of mind on the remembered occasion — Richard Taylor > (2) : this power regarded as vested in an individual : an individual's capacity for reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained < has a good memory for faces > < rely on the faulty memory of a cross section of people — S.L.Payne > < his memory annoyed him … it did not work willingly any more — Stuart Cloete > (3) : the process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned as manifested in some special way or as associated with some bodily process < visual memory > < muscular memory > b. : persistent modification of structure or of behavior resulting from an organism's activity or from its passively acquired experience c. (1) : the totality of what has been learned and retained especially as evidenced by recall and recognition < drew on his memory to supply the needed names > < even birds and animals have an ancestral memory — Horizon > (2) : the function of memory regarded as a compartment or chamber in which images, perceptions, or learning are stored < filling their memory with a lumber of words — R.L.Stevenson > < the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory — Walter Sorell & Denver Lindley > < retain in their memory the preceding movements — George Balanchine > < a richly stored memory > 3. a. (1) : commemorative remembrance < a statue erected in memory of the hero > < has been held in memory in Ireland — Maxwell Nurnberg & Morris Rosenblum > < a local museum dedicated to the memory of the celebrity — American Guide Series: Maine > (2) : a person or thing held in commemorative remembrance < his deeds are the country's proudest memories > b. : the fact or condition of being remembered < memory of such upheavals goes back to remote antiquity > < persecutions which were of recent memory — K.S.Latourette > 4. a. : a particular act of recalling something learned or experienced : the fact or a condition of recalling : remembrance, recollection, recall < woke with … complete memory of where she had been — Pearl Buck > < have no memory of that incident > < recited the poem from memory > b. (1) : an image, impression, or other mental trace of someone or something known or experienced : the content of something remembered < my first memory is one of being held up to a window — George Dangerfield > < the memory of his voice as distinct in her mind as it ever had been in her ear — Glenway Wescott > < pleasant memories of an Italian summer > < the memory of the captain's wife had not left him — Carson McCullers > < memories of the Japanese occupation … created a heritage of ill will — R.H.Fifield > < have written down their memory … of one such occasion — F.I.Cobb > < made the town's isolation a memory — American Guide Series: Texas > < the course is a memory and a mark is no longer even a ghost — Norman Nathan > < the depression is only a bad memory > (2) : the total impression or generalized image of a person preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition : posthumous opinion < this ruler left behind him golden memories > < a prince of glorious memory > (3) : the character, personality, or achievements of a person as preserved in remembrance < the man whose memory the Royal Irish Academy honors — Gearoid O'Sullivan > < his memory recalled the most wonderful and exciting … adventures — R.H.Davis > < hates her memory and all other women — Lucy M. Montgomery > c. : the time within which past events can be or are remembered < within the memory of living men > 5. : concentration 5 6. a. : a component in an electronic computing machine (as a computer) in which information (as data or program instructions) may be inserted and stored and from which it may be extracted when wanted b. : a device external to a computer for the insertion, storage, and extraction of information 7. a. : a capacity for showing effects recognized as the result of past treatment — used especially of materials < the wire begins to turn in the other direction corresponding to the first twisting — the memory of the recent short-term handling has been obliterated by that of the more remote but longer lasting and therefore more impressive one — Bernhard Gross > b. : a capacity for returning to a former condition (as after being stretched) — used especially of a material < the memory will cause the material to resume the shape it had when you purchased it — Road Magazine > Synonyms: remembrance, recollection, reminiscence, mind, souvenir: memory applies both to the faculty of remembering and to what is remembered, sometimes remembered dearly or cherished < a very good memory > < a memory training course > < it was the merest memory now, vague and a little sweet, like the remembrance of some exceptional spring day — John Galsworthy > remembrance can be the same as memory but more often refers to the act of remembering and usually to a particular act of remembering especially something pleasant or cherished in memory, or it may apply to the state of being remembered < the only moments I've lived my life to the full and that live in remembrance unfaded — W.W.Gibson > < the vivid remembrance of an almost identical setting one evening — Henry Miller > < the remembrance of things past — Shakespeare > < the remembrance of the event always brought a pang of regret > recollection is like remembrance but carries a strong suggestion of more voluntary and sometimes effortful recalling to mind, and it may apply to the thing remembered in this way < they have a tendency to forget the facts of the present in their fond recollection of the past — S.M.Crothers > < you ask me to put down a few recollections of your father — W.E.H.Lecky > reminiscence may refer to remembrance of something long past, especially as remembered casually and accidentally; it is closely synonymous with recollection in references to what is remembered < would use all the techniques of modern psychology in his analyses of the subconscious; the phenomena of involuntary reminiscence fascinate him — B.M.Woodbridge > < the author's own reminiscences of childhood and youth are a good deal less pretentious and more amusing than this model — Times Literary Supplement > mind in this sense commonly appears only in a few idiomatic phrases < to keep in mind > < out of sight, out of mind > souvenir may still be used as a synonym of memory < then she carefully restored them, her mind full of souvenirs newly awakened — Arnold Bennett > II. noun : capacity for storing information < 64 megabytes of memory >
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