- memoirs[plural]
an account written by somebody, especially somebody famous, about their life and experiences (尤指名人的)回忆录;自传 Extra ExamplesO'Connor published a childhood memoir. 奥康纳出版了一部童年回忆录。 He has published a long memoir about those years. 他出版了一部关于那些岁月的长篇回忆录。 She describes in her memoirs how she coped with her mother's death. 她在回忆录中记述自己如何应对母亲的去世。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- personal
- childhood
- political
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- publish
- write
- read
- …
- in your memoir
- memoir about
- memoir of
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- [countable] (formal)
a written account of somebody’s life, a place, or an event, written by somebody who knows it well 传说;地方志;大事记 his brief memoir of his father's life 他关于父亲一生的简短回忆录 the market for political memoirs 政治回忆录的市场
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- personal
- childhood
- political
- …
- publish
- write
- read
- …
- in your memoir
- memoir about
- memoir of
- …
Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting a memorandum or record): from French mémoire (masculine), a special use of mémoire (feminine) ‘memory’.