- 1紀念小物；紀念品（偏「留著喚起回憶」的那件，不是機場買的量產 souvenir）
A memento is a small thing you keep because it brings a person, a place, or a day back into your mind. It might be a ticket, a pressed flower, a cheap key ring from a trip, a note in someone’s handwriting. The point is not money; the point is memory. Though actually, people sometimes use it loosely for any souvenir they bought, even when they never look at it again. It sounds a little more thoughtful than souvenir — a souvenir can be something you grabbed at the airport; a memento is something you meant to keep. You will meet it in both careful writing and ordinary talk, though younger people might just say , or “this thing reminds me of…”
組成Borrowed from Latin mementō, “remember!” — the command form of meminī, “to remember.” English took the Latin word and used it as a noun.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
mementonoun/məˈmɛntoʊ/
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A keepsake; an object kept as a reminder of a place or event.
- I kept the shell as a memento of my visit to the seashore.
- In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。