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词汇 memoir
释义 memoir
noun
uk /ˈmem.wɑːr/ us /ˈmem.wɑːr/
[ C ]
a book or other piece of writing based on the writer's personal knowledge of famous people, places, or events: 传记,传略
She has written a memoir of her encounters with famous movie stars over the years.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 ](US alsomemoir)
a written record of a usually famous person's own life and experiences: 回忆录;自传
She plans to write her memoirs.她计划写自传。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Pieces of writing
annotation
biographic
blog post
caption
Chyron
creative writing
cutting
draft
femslash
intertextual
intertextuality
intertextually
juvenilia
legend
passage
self-portrait
thought piece
transcript
uncaptioned
versification

memoir | American Dictionary


memoir
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmem·wɑr, -wɔr/
writing
a written record of a person’s knowledge of events or of a person's own experiences:
She wrote a memoir about her years as a war correspondent.
He’s writing his memoirs (= the story of his life).

Examples of memoir


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