核心畫面
Something big and solid standing in a public place so that people will not forget — a stone column, an arch, a statue. Its whole job is to keep a memory standing after the people who held it are gone. From that, the word stretches to old buildings that carry history, and then to anything that stands as lasting proof of what someone did.
可以想成：一座又大又結實的東西立在公共場合，目的只有一個——讓人不要忘記。石碑、拱門、銅像都算。它把一段記憶「立」在…更多收起
可以想成：一座又大又結實的東西立在公共場合，目的只有一個——讓人不要忘記。石碑、拱門、銅像都算。它把一段記憶「立」在那裡，等當年的人都不在了，記憶還站著。從這個畫面，這個字往外長：先是那些本身就承載歷史、被保護起來的老建築，再來是任何「留下來、證明某人做過什麼」的東西，就算它不是石頭做的。原始詞典資料20 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。
Monumentname
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A place in the United States:
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Monumentnoun
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monumentnoun/ˈmɑnjʊmənt/
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A structure built for commemorative or symbolic reasons, or as a memorial; a commemoration.
- There is a monument on the town green to the soldiers who died in World War I.
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An important site owned by the community as a whole.
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a registered archaeological site or other structure, deemed historic or otherwise worthy of protection.
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A sign of exceptional achievement.
- The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
- The line became a monument to his drive and imagination — and a hard training course for the future chief of the Great Central.
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An important burial vault or tomb.
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Any grave marker.
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A legal document.
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A surveying reference point marked by a permanently fixed marker (a survey monument).
另外 3 個記錄的用法
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A pile of stones left by a prospector to claim ownership of ore etc. found in a mine.
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geographynatural-sciencessurveyingA natural or artificial object used as a reference point.
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A surviving record.
- This linguistic fragment, rough as it may appear, is of the highest interest; for it is the first written monument of the French language, eleven hundred years old.
- Czech was long used as a written language also by the Slovaks; the earliest existing Slovak monument is the Žilina Town Book from the late 15ᵗʰ century
monumentverb/ˈmɑnjʊmənt/
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To mark or memorialize with a monument.
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To place a surveyor's monument at.
- Enter the year the marker was monumented. If the year cannot be determined , enter " UNK " .
- Having chosen and monumented the initial point, the surveyor established the "principal meridian" by traversing north and south from the initial point.
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。