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Memorialize People Stone Meaning D 英 Mə'Mɔːriəlaɪz] 美 Mə'Mɔːriəlaɪz

英语单词 memorialize
英美音标 英 [mə'mɔːriəlaɪz] 美 [mə'mɔːriəlaɪz]
中文释义 vt.纪念;请愿
英语例句 (1) People plan to carve a stone to memorialize the tsunami victims.
(2) He and Bartholdi, a sculptor, began to discuss the idea of presenting the United States with a monument to memorialize independence and human liberty.
中文例句 (1) 海啸之后,人们准备刻石纪念这次灾难的受害者。
(2) 之后,他和巴斯尔德这位雕塑家一起讨论这一想法,即在美国树立一座纪念碑以纪念美国独立和人类的自由精神。
vocabulary简明 When you memorialize something, you honor it or do something so it will be remembered. If you want to remember a summer trip taken with friends, you could make a photo album full of the pictures you took to memorialize it.
vocabulary扩展 The word memorialize often is used in relation to someone or something that has passed away or even to a group of connected individuals who have perished. You might see a monument, for example, that memorializes victims of an earthquake, meaning pays tribute to them. You can also memorialize someone in a speech, meaning you tell about the person's life and describe how he or she has affected others.
柯林斯解释
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 memorialise
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[VERB 动词]纪念;使记住 If a person or event is memorialized, something is produced that will continue to exist and remind people of them.
  [be V-ed]
  [V n]
  • He was praised in print and memorialized in stone throughout the South...

    在整个南方地区,他被人们著书称颂,刻碑纪念。

  • Our affair was memorialized by those children...

    那些孩子的存在时刻提醒着人们我俩的私情。

  • When she died in 1946, her friends wanted to memorialize her in some significant way.

    她1946年去世的时候,她的朋友们希望以某种隆重的方式纪念她。

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