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/ˌsuːvəˈnɪr/ · /ˌsuːvəˈnɪə/
An object that you buy or keep so that later it reminds you of a place you have visited or of a special day or event. A souvenir is often small and cheap; what matters is the memory it holds, not the thing itself.
紀念品
複數 souvenirs
核心畫面
Think of a small thing on your shelf — a cheap shell, a ticket, a fridge magnet. On its own it is worth almost nothing, but you pick it up and a whole trip comes back. It is not really the object you keep; it is the day the object holds for you.
可以想成架子上那個小東西——一個便宜的貝殼、一張票根、一個冰箱磁鐵。單看它幾乎不值錢，可是你一拿起來，整趟旅行就回來…更多收起
可以想成架子上那個小東西——一個便宜的貝殼、一張票根、一個冰箱磁鐵。單看它幾乎不值錢，可是你一拿起來，整趟旅行就回來了。你真正留下的其實不是那個物件，而是它幫你扣住的那一天。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。
souvenirnoun/ˌsuː.vəˈnɪə/
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An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.
- Back then, nobody knew in the schoolyard / Now then, you have grown up to be this hard / Go then, walk through this world with your heart scarred / You're the souvenir of sadness
- The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.
souvenirverb/ˌsuː.vəˈnɪə/
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To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.
- "Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."
- The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.
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。