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memoirs

US // (ˈmɛmwɑːz) //

回忆录,追忆录,回顾录,备忘录

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : a collection of reminiscences about a period, series of events, etc, written from personal experience or special sources
    • : an autobiographical record
    • : a collection or record, as of transactions of a society, etc

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Examples

  • His harrowing escape from Vienna when Hitler took Austria in March 1938 is dramatically chronicled in his memoirs.

  • Sachin Tendulkar may be one of the most brilliant players in the sport, but he struggles to liven up his memoirs.

  • He is the author of Broken Glass, Memoirs of a Porcupine, and African Psycho, among others.

  • His memoirs led Campagnol to a convent at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli on Murano, where Mr. Casanova had a lover.

  • Not just selling the tapes but having them to mine for his memoirs, other foreign affairs books he wanted to write.

  • The Marshal, in his Memoirs, asserts that this short campaign was the severest strain he ever underwent.

  • During his hours of leisure the Marshal wrote his Memoirs, which he intended to aid the future historian of the French wars.

  • These articles, written with great eloquence and feeling, were subsequently published with her memoirs.

  • Madame Roland had continued writing her memoirs until the hour in which she left her cell for the scaffold.

  • James Forbes, in his "Oriental Memoirs," relates a striking instance of this kind.