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单词 memoir
释义
memoir
noun
uk
/ˈmem.wɑːr/us
/ˈmem.wɑːr/
[C]
abookor otherpieceof writingbasedon the writer'spersonalknowledgeoffamouspeople,places, orevents:
传记，传略
She has written a memoir of herencounterswithfamousmoviestarsover theyears.她写了一本传记，记述了自己多年来与著名影星的交往。
memoirs[plural](USalsomemoir)
a writtenrecordof a usuallyfamousperson's ownlifeandexperiences:
回忆录；自传
Sheplanstowriteher memoirs.她计划写自传。
Angelou's firstvolumeof memoirsdealtwith herchildhood.安杰卢的回忆录第一册写的是她的童年。
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(Definition ofmemoirfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

memoir| American Dictionary

memoir
noun[C]
us
/ˈmem·wɑr,-wɔr/
writing
a writtenrecordof a person’sknowledgeofeventsor of a person's ownexperiences:
Shewrotea memoir about heryearsas awarcorrespondent.
He’s writing his memoirs(= thestoryof hislife).
(Definition ofmemoirfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmemoir

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What the editors have categorized as ' memoirs ' constitute the collection's eighth chapter.
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What ensued from that debate became a mythic moment that resonates throughout countless memoirs, documentaries and commentaries on the period.
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One of the main first impressions made by these memoirs is the clarity and attractiveness of their format.
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Their memoirs detailed not only how to smoke but also why.
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Of all late seventeenth-century genres, memoirs were least subject to the rules of composition, distinguishing them sharply from history.
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The answer is that memoirs are and will remain particularly important because so much of the diplomacy was conducted informally on a personal level.
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Because memoirs are often the unconscious defences of the author's ego, historians are suspicious of them.
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The natural exigencies of participation in eighteenth-century conspiracy necessarily militated against record-keeping and memoirs of this kind.
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What little we know about them comes from rare asides in his letters and memoirs.
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After the silencing of the resistance in 1964, he composed his memoirs during 1965-68.
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In total, the collection comprises 343 letters, with several additional instructions and memoirs.
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Because the experience that memoirs describe has no future, memoirs do not aim to instruct.
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Indeed, it is extraordinary how many memoirs dwell on the manner of his dress.
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The most dramatic ' hidden histories ' discovered by scholars here are 'tin trunk ' diaries, journals or memoirs found after their authors had died.
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His memoirs, after all, were constructed as dialogues.
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