| 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 [V n that]
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]
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
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
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