| 单词 | keepsake |
| 释义 | keepsake From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishHouseholdkeepsakekeep‧sake /ˈkiːpseɪk/ noun [countable]DHREMEMBERa small object that you keep to remind you of someone SYN mementoExamples from the Corpuskeepsake• Mrs Noble gave Helen, as a keepsake, Edward's last letter to her father.• Just a keepsake to remember us by.• Inaugural Committee organizers, who mailed the invitations in December, said they were meant as keepsakes.• After all, almost everyone who completes the race gets a free, three-day keepsake.• Or else it might be that Hilbert had left Adam some small memento or keepsake ... Adam was lying late in bed.• District councillor Richard Groves presented a photographic keepsake to commercial manager Mel Hunt.• Some of the pictures certainly qualify as priceless keepsakes.Origin keepsake (1700-1800) Because you "keep" it for the "sake" of (that is, to be reminded of) the person who gave it to you |
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