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monument

/noun mon-yuh-muhnt; verb mon-yuh-ment/US // noun ˈmɒn yə mənt; verb ˈmɒn yəˌmɛnt //UK // (ˈmɒnjʊmənt) //

纪念碑,纪念馆,纪念物,纪念品

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
    • : any building, megalith, etc., surviving from a past age, and regarded as of historical or archaeological importance.
    • : any enduring evidence or notable example of something: a monument to human ingenuity.
    • : an exemplar, model, or personification of some abstract quality, especially when considered to be beyond question: a monument of middle-class respectability.
    • : an area or a site of interest to the public for its historical significance, great natural beauty, etc., preserved and maintained by a government.
    • : a written tribute to a person, especially a posthumous one.
    • : Surveying. an object, as a stone shaft, set in the ground to mark the boundaries of real estate or to mark a survey station.
    • : a person considered as a heroic figure or of heroic proportions: He became a monument in his lifetime.
    • : Obsolete.a tomb; sepulcher.a statue.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to build a monument or monuments to; commemorate: to monument the nation's war dead.
    • : to build a monument on: to monument a famous site.

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Examples

  • Scientists have been trying to figure out how ancient people developed their tools and built their cities and monuments.

  • Like so many of our museums and monuments, it’s always some place you’ve been meaning to go.

  • Hearing sounds of some kind circulating inside the ancient monument “must have been one of the fundamental experiences of Stonehenge.”

  • Ginzel said that traditional monuments, such as the Columbus statues, can be problematic because they represent power from a specific point of view.

  • People living back then often created monuments to frame views of natural features, she says.

  • The man whom Time dubbed a “Black Leonardo,” became the first African-American to have a national monument dedicated to him.

  • But, in my mind—and many of the townspeople—the monument was far from the main attraction.

  • On one occasion, a drone operator flew a drone over a crowd at Mount Rushmore, then out over the monument itself.

  • At its center was a monument, perhaps just over six feet high.

  • The entire city can seem like a singular monument to his decades in office.

  • After his death crowds flocked to his grave to touch his holy monument, till the authorities caused the church yard to be shut.

  • In a statuesque attitude, she sat, like Marius on the ruins of Carthage, or Patience on a monument smiling at grief.

  • His grand work, the Animal Kingdom, forms an imperishable monument of his genius.

  • It is undoubtedly Cavaill-Coll's finest work, and a lasting monument to his genius.

  • The column was suggested in 1862 as a suitable monument to the memory of the late Prince Albert.