喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˌsuːvəˈnɪr/ · /ˌsuːvəˈnɪə/紀念品

    An object that you buy or keep so that later it reminds you of a place you have visited or of a special day or event. A souvenir is often small and cheap; what matters is the memory it holds, not the thing itself.

    示範例句 · Example

    Leo bought a small wooden train as a souvenir of his trip to Alishan.

    逐字里歐買了一台小小的木頭火車，作為他阿里山之旅的紀念品。

    souvenir 說的是「為了以後記得某個地方或某一天，而買下或留下來的東西」。這個字從法文來的，法文的 souvenir 就是「記得」，所以可以想成整個字裡面裝著「記得」兩個字——東西可以只是一張票、一片葉子、一個小磁鐵，只要它替你保存那段回憶，它就是 souvenir。也因為重點在回憶，它不一定要用買的：買回來、留下來都算。要注意 souvenir 跟中文的「伴手禮」不完全一樣：買來送人的禮物英文說 gift 或 present，souvenir 通常是自己帶回去、留著看的那一種紀念品。

    常見搭配

    • as a souvenir of something

      作為…的紀念品

      kept or bought so that it reminds you of something

      Mei bought a shell necklace as a souvenir of the beach.

    • a souvenir shop

      紀念品店

      a shop that sells small things for visitors to take home

      There is a souvenir shop next to the museum entrance.

    • buy a souvenir / buy souvenirs

      買紀念品

      to buy something to remind you of a place you visited

      We had one hour left, so we went to buy souvenirs.

    • keep something as a souvenir

      把某樣東西留下來當紀念

      to save something because of the memory it holds

      Ren kept the ticket as a souvenir.

    • a souvenir from somewhere

      從某地帶回來的紀念品

      something brought home from a particular place

      This little bell is a souvenir from Kyoto.

    • a souvenir programme

      （演出的）紀念節目單

      a printed programme kept to remember a show or concert

      She still has the souvenir programme from the gala concert.

core核心畫面

Think of a small thing on your shelf — a cheap shell, a ticket, a fridge magnet. On its own it is worth almost nothing, but you pick it up and a whole trip comes back. It is not really the object you keep; it is the day the object holds for you.

可以想成架子上那個小東西——一個便宜的貝殼、一張票根、一個冰箱磁鐵。單看它幾乎不值錢，可是你一拿起來，整趟旅行就回來了。你真正留下的其實不是那個物件，而是它幫你扣住的那一天。

複數 souvenirs

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

souvenirnoun/ˌsuː.vəˈnɪə/

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    An item of sentimental value, that is given or kept to remember an event or location.

    • Back then, nobody knew in the schoolyard / Now then, you have grown up to be this hard / Go then, walk through this world with your heart scarred / You're the souvenir of sadness
    • The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.

souvenirverb/ˌsuː.vəˈnɪə/

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    To take (something) as a souvenir, especially illicitly, for example during wartime.

    • "Doubletime up to the ville and souvenir me one cute orphan, man, but be sure you get a dirty one, a really skuzzy one."
    • The word is they're waiting for some blokes who had gone off souveniring before the order was announced.

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