核心畫面

One way to hold it: putting something back into someone's mind. It was already in there, just out of sight — a task, a face, a fact — and you nudge it back to the front. Notice that the subject can be a person doing the nudging, or a thing that does it by itself: a smell, a song, a photo.

可以想成把某樣東西放回別人的腦子前面。它本來就在裡面,只是被蓋住了——一件待辦的事、一張臉、一個事實——你只是把它推更多收起可以想成把某樣東西放回別人的腦子前面。它本來就在裡面,只是被蓋住了——一件待辦的事、一張臉、一個事實——你只是把它推回看得見的位置。要注意推的人可以是人(我提醒你),也可以是東西自己在推:一種氣味、一首歌、一張照片。

From the picture

固定說法裡的提醒

同樣是把事情推回眼前,但這兩個說法整組固定下來,各自帶著明顯的語氣——一個是苦笑著喊停,一個是把話說重一點。

don't remind me · verb · B1

Something you say when a person mentions a thing that annoys or embarrasses you.

別提了

Also in this word

make someone remember · verb · B1

To make someone remember something they need to do or should not forget.

提醒

bring to mind · verb · B1

To make someone think of a person, thing, or memory from the past.

使想起

原始詞典資料2 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。

remindverb/ɹəˈmaɪnd/

  • 1

    To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).

    • I am aware, reader, and you need not remind me, that it is a dreadful thing for a parson to be warlike: […]
    • His eyes were green and every cat I see to this day reminds me of the exact contour of his face.

remindnoun/ɹəˈmaɪnd/

  • 1

    An act of reminding; a reminder.

    • Even with successful nights like that, Garth said the death of police dog Quanto in October is never forgotten, but instead serves as a remind that any call could be dangerous.
    • Surveys consisted of circulating a questionnaire - in .xls file with predefined fields to fill - amongst information producers (i.e., project coordinators, national research funding agencies involved in BlueBio projects); several reminds were sent to increase the response rate.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。