形容詞：為紀念而辦的
把同樣的用意變成形容詞，貼在活動或東西前面：這場儀式、這座公園、這筆獎學金存在的理由，就是為了記得某個人。
commemorating the dead · adjective · C2
Made or done so that people go on remembering someone who has died.
紀念的；追悼的
核心畫面
Picture a stone standing in a park with a name cut into it. The person is gone; the stone is there so that people keep coming back and remembering. Memorial is that job — whatever is put there, made, or held so a person is not forgotten.
可以想成：公園裡立著一塊石頭，上面刻著一個名字。人已經不在了，石頭留下來，讓走過的人記得他。memorial 就是在…更多收起
可以想成：公園裡立著一塊石頭，上面刻著一個名字。人已經不在了，石頭留下來，讓走過的人記得他。memorial 就是在做這件事的東西——不管是立的、做的還是辦的，目的都是讓一個人不被忘記。From the picture
Also in this word
structure honoring the dead · noun · C2
An object, especially a stone or statue, that is built to help people remember someone who has died.
紀念碑；紀念物
lasting achievement remembered · noun · C2
Something a person made or achieved that stays behind and makes people remember them after they have died.
紀念（成就）
原始詞典資料9 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。
memorialnoun/məˈmɔːɹi.əl/
- 1
obsoleteMemory; recollection.
- 2
Something, such as a monument, by which someone or something is remembered.
- These mementoes or memorials [sculptural national monuments], though in the present age the unphilosophical and sciolistic spirit of some have led them to regard with contempt this method of honouring the illustrious great, excite a laudable admiration for the service or benefit to which they testify, and are living realities to perpetuate at once the respect entertained by the nation, both for the individual himself and the performance that has entitled him to their gratitude.
- Although the country branch lines may pass, they leave with those who have known them so well an ineffaceable memory[,] and for those who will follow after[,] a memorial in the form of embankment, cutting and tunnel with here and there a station building or railway cottage that time does not destroy.
- 3
A chronicle or memoir.
- 4
archaicA note or memorandum.
- 5
ChristianityA service of remembrance or commemoration.
- 6
lawA statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc.
- Captain Surman […] immediately addressed a memorial to the governor, stating that an act of Providence had sent him into port for the preservation of the lives of those on board; he therefore trusted he should be allowed to refit and depart.
memorialadj/məˈmɔːɹi.əl/
- 1
Serving as a remembrance of someone or something; commemorative.
- a memorial building
- There high in air, memorial of my name, / Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.
- 2
Contained in the memory.
- a memorial possession
- 3
archaicMnemonic; assisting the memory.
- This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.
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。