Who we are and what we are doing, we live, what is the point of all this need to tell us our memory. In our world, is not the memory will disappear, we are live for memory?

——Memento Mort

我们是谁，我们在做什么，我们生活下去的意义是什么，这一切都需要我们的记忆来告诉我们。我们的世界，是不是没有了记忆就消失不见，我们是在为记忆而活?

——《记忆碎片》

一、你知道memory有几种含义吗？

n.

1.记忆力，记性 [U,C] your ability to remember things

His phone number has slipped my memory.

他的电话号码我记不起来了。

 

2.回忆，记忆 [C] a thought of sth that you remember from the past

My memory unavoidably recurred to former times with a sort of oppressive sadness.

我不可避免地怀着一种压抑的悲哀回忆往日。

 

3.记忆所及的时期，回忆所及的范围 [U] the period of time that sb is able to remember events

The memory of the old days all rushed back upon him with sickening vividness.

过去时光的记忆带着令人极不愉快的清晰向他袭来。

 

4.【计算机】存储器，内存 [U.C] the part of a computer where information is stored; the amount of space in a computer for storing information

The computer has two million bytes of memory.

该电脑的存储器有两百万单位。

 

5.【正式】对死者的记忆；死后的名声；亡灵；人格 [U] an image or impression of one that is remembered

I didn't mean to offend the memory of your mother.

可我无意损害你母亲死后的名声。

 

二、你知道memory和哪些词更搭吗？

long-term memory

长期记忆长期存储

 

random access memory

随机读取存储器,内存

 

read-only memory

n.只读内存

 

virtual memory

n.虚拟内存

 

immediate memory

即刻回忆

 

三、最后，来做个填词游戏吧

All these facts were stored in his _____.

这些事都贮存在他的记忆之中。