recollection
/ˌrekəˈlekʃən/noun
mass noun
1- the action or faculty of remembering or recollecting something回忆, 记忆; 记忆力:
to the best of my recollection no one ever had a bad word to say about him.
就我记忆所及, 没有人说过他的坏话。
1.1
- count noun a thing recollected; a memory回忆起的事物(或景象), 往事; 回忆:
a biography based on his wife's recollections.
根据他妻子的回忆写成的传记。
1.2
- Philosophy (in Platonic thought) anamnesis【哲】(柏拉图思想)(对前世生活的)回忆, 回想。
派生词
recollective
adjective词源
late 16th cent. (denoting gathering things together again): from French or medieval Latin recollectio(n-), from the verb recolligere 'gather again' (see RECOLLECT1).