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If something is reminiscent of another thing, it reminds you of it - it brings back a memory or feels similar to something from before. You could say a song is 'reminiscent of the 1980s', or a new restaurant's decoration is 'reminiscent of an old European café'. It's a slightly formal, descriptive word, common in reviews of music, movies, food, and design, when writers want to say 'this reminds me of...' in a way.
令人聯想到...的、讓人想起...的
組成It comes from the verb 'reminisce', which means to happily remember and talk about the past.
同家族的字
- reminiscereminiscent describes something that makes you reminisce, or remember the past
原始詞典資料5 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。
reminiscentadj/ˌɹɛməˈnɪsnt/
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Of, or relating to reminiscence.
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Suggestive of an earlier event or times.
- It was reminiscent of the rallies held by Adolph Hitler during the 1930s-1940s before adoring crowds in Nazi Germany. At many of these Nazi rallies, the German participants swore personal allegiance to their nation’s leader-Adolph Hitler over and above their own Nation-Germany.
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Tending to bring some memory etc. to mind (followed by of)
- That painting is very reminiscent of Picasso's later work.
- The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.
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Remembering; undergoing reminiscence.
- Some other state of existence, of which we have been previously conscious, and are now reminiscent.
reminiscentnoun/ˌɹɛməˈnɪsnt/
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One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.
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。