英汉词典

memory 基本解释

• n. 记忆，记忆力；内存，[计] 存储器；回忆
• n. (Memory)人名；(英)梅默里

memory 词态变化

memory 中文词源

来自拉丁语memor,记忆的，提醒的，思考的，来自PIE*mer,记忆，词源同memorize.拼写me-为mor的韵律重复。引申词义内存，存储器等。

memory 英文词源

memory

memory: [14] The Indo-European base *men-, *mon- ‘think’ has contributed an enormously wide range of words to the English lexicon, from comment to mind. One particular semantic family denotes ‘memory’, and goes back to memor ‘mindful’, a Latin descendant of *men-. From it was derived the noun memoria ‘memory’, which has given English memory, memorize [16], memorial [14], and, via modern French, memoir [16]; and the verb memorāre ‘remember’, from which English gets commemorate [16], memorable [15], and memorandum [16] (not forgetting its abbreviation memo [19]).

Also from memor comes remember; and three other Latin descendants of *men-, meminisse ‘remember’, reminiscī ‘remember’, and mentiō ‘remembrance’, gave English memento [15], reminiscence [16], and mention respectively. The distantly related remind carries the same idea.
=> commemorate, comment, mention, mind, remind, reminisce

memory (n.)

mid-13c., "recollection (of someone or something); awareness, consciousness," also "fame, renown, reputation," from Anglo-French memorie (Old French memoire, 11c., "mind, memory, remembrance; memorial, record") and directly from Latin memoria "memory, remembrance, faculty of remembering," noun of quality from memor "mindful, remembering," from PIE root *(s)mer- (1) "to remember" (Sanskrit smarati "remembers," Avestan mimara "mindful;" Greek merimna "care, thought," mermeros "causing anxiety, mischievous, baneful;" Serbo-Croatian mariti "to care for;" Welsh marth "sadness, anxiety;" Old Norse Mimir, name of the giant who guards the Well of Wisdom; Old English gemimor "known," murnan "mourn, remember sorrowfully;" Dutch mijmeren "to ponder"). Meaning "faculty of remembering" is late 14c. in English.

I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. [Mark Twain, "Autobiography"]

Computer sense, "device which stores information," is from 1946. Related: Memories.

memory 词组搭配

memory 英文释义

1. something that is remembered;

"search as he would, the memory was lost"

2. the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered;

"he can do it from memory"

"he enjoyed remembering his father"

3. the power of retaining and recalling past experience;

"he had a good memory when he was younger"

4. an electronic memory device;

"a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"

5. the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes;

"he taught a graduate course on learning and memory"

memory 双语例句

1. "His memory must be completely back, then?" — "Just about."

“这么说，他的记忆一定是完全恢复了？”——“差不多。”

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2. The memory of it all was locked deep in my subconscious.

关于它的一切记忆都深植于我的潜意识里。

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3. Intoxication interferes with memory and thinking, speech and coordination.

醉酒影响记忆、思考、语言与协调性。

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4. He had a good memory, and total recall of her spoken words.

他记忆力很好，她当时说的话他全都记得起来。

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5. Bulman was cursed with a poor memory for names.

布尔曼总是记不住人名。

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memory 实用场景例句

I have a bad memory for names.

我不善于记名字。

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People have short memories (= they soon forget) .

人是健忘的。

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He had a long memory for people who had disappointed him.

谁让他失望，他总是记恨在心。

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She can recite the whole poem from memory .

她能背诵全诗。

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He suffered loss of memory for weeks after the accident.

事故之后他有几个星期失去记忆。

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Are you sure? Memory can play tricks on you.

你肯定吗？记忆也会捉弄人的。

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There hasn't been peace in the country in/within my memory .

在我的记忆里，这个国家从没太平过。

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It was the worst storm in recent memory.

最近能记得的风暴中，这是最厉害的一次。

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This hasn't happened in living memory (= nobody alive now can remember it happening) .

在世的人都不记得发生过这样的事。

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childhood memories

童年的回忆

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I have vivid memories of my grandparents.

我依然清楚地记得我的祖父母。

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What is your earliest memory?

你最早能记得的是什么？

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The photos bring back lots of good memories .

这些照片唤起了许多美好的回忆。

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Her memory lives on (= we still remember her) .

我们永远怀念她。

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He founded the charity in memory of his late wife.

他创办了这一慈善事业以纪念他已故的妻子。

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All the details of the meeting are fresh in my memory...

我对会议的所有细节都记忆犹新。

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He'd a good memory for faces, and he was sure he hadn't seen her before...

他对别人的长相过目不忘，他确信自己以前没有见过她。

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She cannot bear to watch the film because of the bad memories it brings back...

她看不了那部电影，因为它会勾起一些痛苦的回忆。

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Her earliest memory is of singing at the age of four to wounded soldiers...

她最早的记忆是在4岁时为受伤的战士唱歌。

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The data are stored in the computer's memory.

资料存在计算机内存里。

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She remained devoted to his memory...

她对他仍十分怀念。

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The congress opened with a minute's silence in memory of those who died in the struggle.

代表大会开幕时进行了一分钟的默哀，以怀念在斗争中牺牲的人。

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Many members of the church sang from memory...

许多教徒都是凭记忆唱颂歌。

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Children write down the word, cover it up and then try to spell it from memory.

孩子们把这个词写下来蒙住，然后试着凭记忆拼出来。

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The floods are the worst in living memory...

那次洪水是人们记忆中最严重的一次。

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No-one in living memory has come back from that place alive.

在人们的记忆中，没有人从那个地方生还。

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His illness caused him to lose his memory.

疾病使他失忆了。

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