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Remind   [V N I Verb 动词 Make Expressions

英语单词 remind
英美音标 英 [rɪ'maɪnd] 美 [rɪ'maɪnd]
中文释义 vt.使想起;提醒
英语例句 (1) This story reminds me of my childhood.
(2) I feel it is absolutely necessary for me to remind him of the meeting today.
中文例句 (1) 这个故事让我想起了我的童年。
(2) 我觉得绝对有必要提醒他今天要开会。
vocabulary简明 To remind is to cause someone to remember, as when George Orwell writes, "The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
vocabulary扩展 In remind, which appears in the early 17th century, the re-, of course, means "again," so the word can be thought of as "to mind again," or "think again," meaning to put something in someone's mind, to make them remember.
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]使想起;使记起;提醒 If someone reminds you of a fact or event that you already know about, they say something which makes you think about it.
  [V n of n]
  [V n that]
  • So she simply welcomed him and reminded him of the last time they had met...

    于是她只是对他表示欢迎,并且提醒说他们上次见过面。

  • I had to remind myself that being confident is not the same as being perfect!

    我得提醒自己表现得自信和表现得完美并不是一回事!

2
[VERB 动词]让我提醒你…/我能提醒你… You use remind in expressions such as Let me remind you that and May I remind you that to introduce a piece of information that you want to emphasize. It may be something that the hearer already knows about or a new piece of information. Sometimes these expressions can sound unfriendly.
  [V n that]
  [V n wh]
  [emphasis]
  [SPOKEN 口语]
  • 'Let me remind you,' said Marianne, 'that Manchester is also my home town.'...

    “让我来提醒你,”玛丽安娜说,“曼彻斯特也是我的家乡。”

  • May I remind you that the care of your health is a religious duty...

    我可以提醒你呵护自己的健康是一项宗教责任吗?

  • Need I remind you who the enemy is?

    还需要我来提醒你敌人是谁吗?

3
[VERB 动词]提醒(某人做某事);使想起(做某事) If someone reminds you to do a particular thing, they say something which makes you remember to do it.
  [V n to-inf]
  [V n about n]
  • Can you remind me to buy a bottle of Martini?...

    你能提醒我买一瓶马提尼酒吗?

  • The note was to remind him about something he had to explain to one of his students.

    这张字条是要提醒他得向他的一个学生解释某件事情。

4
[VERB 动词](因为相似)使联想到 If you say that someone or something reminds you of another person or thing, you mean that they are similar to the other person or thing and that they make you think about them. →see usage note at:
remember
  [V n of n]
  • She reminds me of the wife of the pilot who used to work for you...

    她让我想到过去为你工作的飞行员的妻子。

  • This reminds me of Christmas parties.

    这让我想起圣诞聚会。

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