核心畫面
A short written note whose job is to put something on the record so it will not be forgotten or argued about later — not a letter to a person, but a note to a whole office. Written down, dated, filed. Once the picture is 'the points, set down in writing', the legal use follows naturally.
可以想成：一張簡短的書面條子，任務是把事情「留下紀錄」，免得日後忘記或各說各話——它不是寫給某一個人的信，而是發給整…更多收起
可以想成：一張簡短的書面條子，任務是把事情「留下紀錄」，免得日後忘記或各說各話——它不是寫給某一個人的信，而是發給整個單位的通知。寫下來、有日期、會歸檔。抓住「把重點落成文字」這個畫面，法律上的用法就接得上了。原始詞典資料4 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。
memorandumnoun/ˌmɛm.əˈɹæn.dəm/
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A short note serving as a reminder.
- ....be more difficult or uncertain than it had been for so many weeks, I had scarcely for a moment adverted to it as necessary, or placed it amongst my memoranda against this parting interview; and my final anxieties being spent in comforting her with hopes, and in pressing upon her the necessity of getting some medicines for a violent cough and hoarseness with which she was troubled, I wholly forgot it until it was too late to recall her.
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A written business communication.
- The Trump administration will allow federal workers to promote their religious beliefs to colleagues, display religious items at work and pray together or individually, according to a memorandum issued Monday by the Office of Personnel Management.
- 3
A brief diplomatic communication.
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A page in an annual publication honoring the memory of a person who died during the past year.
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。