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/ˈmeməraɪz/
to learn words, music, or facts carefully so that you know them exactly later.
背起來；記住
過去式 memorized過去分詞 memorized-ing memorizing三單 memorizes
核心畫面
Working at something on purpose until you can produce it later without looking — the lines of a play, a phone number, a piece of music. The effort and the exactness are both in the word: you are not just remembering, you are putting it in on purpose so it comes back whole.
可以想成：刻意反覆練，練到之後不用看也講得出來——台詞、電話號碼、一段樂譜。這個字同時帶著「花力氣」和「一字不差」兩…更多收起
可以想成：刻意反覆練，練到之後不用看也講得出來——台詞、電話號碼、一段樂譜。這個字同時帶著「花力氣」和「一字不差」兩件事：不是自然想起來，而是刻意存進去，要用的時候能完整取出。跟 remember 的差別就在這裡——remember 是想得起來，memorize 是為了記住而下的工夫。原始詞典資料1 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。
memorizeverb/ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/
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To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory.
- I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.
- Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.
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。