| 单词 | commemorate |
| 释义 | commemorate (once / 875 pages) v To commemorate something means to remember something and by doing so to honor it, as in “We would like to commemorate his many years of past service by presenting him with this lovely gold watch.” The word commemorate has a pretty clear echo of memory in it, so it can help to keep it in your mind just by noticing that. You might also notice that you’ve seen the word before, either in late-night infomercials or in various advertisements in magazines, when they talk about commemorative plates, or stamps, or coins: little things that are supposed to honor events or people by recalling them to our collective memory. WORD FAMILYcommemorate: commemorated, commemorates, commemorating, commemoration, commemorative+/commemoration: commemorations/commemorative: commemoratively, commemoratives USAGE EXAMPLESThe centenary of the battle of the Somme was widely commemorated. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) The Treasury announced that Harriet Tubman will become the first black person commemorated on a U.S. bank note. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The obituary for Bill Usery commemorated a life committed to finding mutually beneficial solutions to the thorniest of labor, management and governmental problems. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1v call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony Syn remember 2v be or provide a memorial to a person or an event This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps Syn|Hypo|Hyper immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize, record monumentalise, monumentalize record or memorialize lastingly with a monument remind put in the mind of someone 3v mark by some ceremony or observation Syn|Hyper mark celebrate, keep, observe behave as expected during of holidays or rites |
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