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memory

/mem-uh-ree/US // ˈmɛm ə ri //UK // (ˈmɛmərɪ) //

记忆,记忆力,内存,存储器

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mem·o·ries.

    • : the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences.
    • : this faculty as possessed by a particular individual: to have a good memory.
    • : the act or fact of retaining and recalling impressions, facts, etc.; remembrance; recollection: to draw from memory.
    • : the length of time over which recollection extends: a time within the memory of living persons.
    • : a mental impression retained; a recollection: one's earliest memories.
    • : the reputation of a person or thing, especially after death; fame: a ruler of beloved memory.
    • : the state or fact of being remembered.
    • : a person, thing, event, fact, etc., remembered.
    • : commemorative remembrance; commemoration: a monument in memory of Columbus.
    • : the ability of certain materials to return to an original shape after deformation.
    • : Also called computer memory, storage. Computers. the capacity of a computer to store information subject to recall.the components of the computer in which such information is stored.
    • : Rhetoric. the step in the classical preparation of a speech in which the wording is memorized.
    • : Cards. concentration.

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Examples

  • Unlike the original Game Boy, the new console’s memory allows games to resume play at the exact same spot after a power interruption.

  • Various kinds of immune memory, including some with mechanisms similar to trained immunity, likely also helped invertebrates to survive.

  • Nasdaq’s nifty bounce yesterday, its biggest gains since April, seems like a distant memory as markets turn negative once again on Thursday.

  • Kornell compares our memory to water in a bucket that has a small leak.

  • Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk demonstrated the latest iteration of Neuralink, his brain-implant startup that aims to one day help paralyzed people walk and even save memories or control computers with just a thought.

  • And there is definitely something to finding solace in food, familiarity, and memory.

  • That idea is often invoked in regards to the tricks memory plays, but I wonder how it might come into play in other ways.

  • The folk memory of medieval community life had been wiped out by the industrial revolution.

  • He has become the most radical pope in modern memory for his economic populism.

  • I had no memory of the other two, and that information was used to discredit my recollection of what had happened to me.

  • The memory of him shall not depart away, and his name shall be in request from generation to generation.

  • So intelligent were her methods that she doubtless had great influence in making the memory of his art enduring.

  • However great the power of Revival, there is no memory unless there was a First Impression.

  • First Impressions are usually vivid but the power to revive them is weak—a poor memory.

  • First Impressions are usually weak but the power to revive them is strong—still a poor memory.