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A keepsake is a small thing you keep because it reminds you of a person, a day, or a feeling — a ticket stub, a pressed flower, a cheap necklace, a note in someone's handwriting. It is not valuable as money; it is valuable as memory.
A keepsake iskeepsake是 a small thing you keep一件你留著的小東西 because it reminds you of a person, a day, or a feeling因為它讓你想起一個人、一天，或一種感覺——a ticket stub, a pressed flower, a cheap necklace, a note in someone's handwriting像是一張票根、一朵壓乾的花、一條便宜的項鍊、一張某人手寫的字條。It is not valuable as money它的價值不在於金錢; it is valuable as memory而在於回憶。
The word feels warm and a little old-fashioned, more at home in a letter or a quiet conversation than in business English.
The word feels warm and a little old-fashioned這個字給人溫暖又有點老派的感覺, more at home in a letter or a quiet conversation比較適合出現在一封信或一段安靜的對話裡 than in business English而不是商業英文。
A souvenir is often something you buy to remember a place; a keepsake is more often something tied to a person.
A souvenir is often somethingsouvenir通常是 you buy to remember a place你為了記住一個地方而買的東西; a keepsake is more often somethingkeepsake則比較常是 tied to a person跟一個人有關的東西。
People give keepsakes on purpose (a lock of hair in older times, a small gift before someone leaves) and they also become keepsakes by accident, when you cannot throw a thing away. You keep a keepsake; you do not really use it.
People give keepsakes on purpose人們有時候是刻意送出keepsake的 (a lock of hair in older times, a small gift before someone leaves)（像以前的一縷頭髮，或某人離開前送的一份小禮物）, and they also become keepsakes by accident但東西也可能意外變成了keepsake when you cannot throw a thing away在你捨不得丟掉時。You keep a keepsake你會留著一件keepsake; you do not really use it但不會真的去使用它。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
keepsakenoun/ˈkiːp.seɪk/
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An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.
- And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.
- My little keepsake—only a brooch—lay on the table at her bedside, with her prayer-book, and the miniature portrait of her father which she takes with her wherever she goes.
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historicalSpecifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings.
- He had brought the last “Keepsake,” the gorgeous watered-silk publication which marked modern progress at that time; and he considered himself very fortunate that he could be the first to look over it with her, dwelling on the ladies and gentlemen with shiny copper-plate cheeks and copper-plate smiles, and pointing to comic verses as capital and sentimental stories as interesting.
- […]it was the Italy that we know from the steel engravings in old keepsakes and annuals, from the vignettes on music-sheets and the drop-curtains at theatres; an Italy that we can never confess to ourselves—in spite of our own changes and of Italy’s—that we have ceased to believe in.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。