每日单词:commemorate

commemorate  /kəˈmeməreɪt/
CET6丨IELTS丨TOEFL

基本释义

commemorate: To commemorate an important event or person means to remember them by means of a special action, ceremony, or specially created object.

v.纪念;庆祝

外刊例句

As for knocking over more statues, he concludes that rather than trying to obliterate imperial history, which will always infuriate as many people as it pleases, Britain should commemorate more of the colonised people who challenged and reformed the empire, or indeed died for it on the battlefield. In short, more, not fewer, plinths and plaques. That would give a clearer and more textured picture of Britain's imperial past.

至于推倒更多的雕像,他总结道,与其试图抹去帝国历史(这总会激怒很多的人),英国应该纪念那些挑战、改革帝国,或者在战场上为帝国牺牲的殖民地人民。简而言之,需要更多的,而不是更少的基座和牌匾。这将为英国的帝国历史提供一幅更清晰、更有质感的画面。

——《经济学人》

追根溯源
单词 commemorate 里面的 memor 部分,来自希腊神话中的记忆女神莫涅莫绪涅(Mnemosyne )的名字。她是天神乌拉诺斯和大地女神盖亚的女儿,十二泰坦神之一,也是宙斯的第五个妻子,和宙斯一起生了九个缪斯女神。她通常被描绘成一个支着下巴沉思的女子;有时她在画笔下表现为一个接近成年的女性,发饰多珍珠和宝石,用右手的两个前指持着耳垂。
从莫涅莫绪涅的名字中产生了词根 memo,变形还有 memor,都表示“记忆”的意思。扩展的单词还有:
memo  /'meməʊ/

n.备忘录

memoir  /'memwɑː/

n.回忆录,自传

memorial  /mə'mɔːrɪəl/

adj.纪念的,记忆的

memorize  /ˈmeməraɪz /

v.记住,背熟

前缀 com 表示“共同”,后缀 ate 表示动词词性,所以,com(共同)+memo(记忆)+ate(动词)=共同来记忆、记住→纪念,庆祝。

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