2019 May 27是美国的公共假日 Memorial Day
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Memorial Day commemorates the men and women who died while in the military service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle.
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commemorate v. [kuh-MEM-uh-rayt]
纪念
Definition
1: to call to remembrance
1: 回忆起
2: to mark by some ceremony or observation : observe
2：以某些典礼或仪式为标志的 : 同义词 observe
3: to serve as a memorial of
3：作为…的纪念用
Did You Know?
When you remember something, you are mindful of it. It’s appropriate, therefore, that commemorate and other related memory-associated words (including memorable, memorial, remember, and memory itself) come from the Latin root memor, meaning “mindful.” Some distant older relatives are Old English gemimor (“well-known”), Greek mermēra (“care”) , and Sanskrit smarati (“he remembers”). English speakers have been marking the memory of important events with commemorate since the late 16th century.
词源词根演化：memor (“mindful”) —> commemorate (v.)
from com- ‘altogether’ + memorare ‘relate’ (from memor ‘mindful’).
当你记住某个事情，你脑子里会对其有印象。所以commemorate以及其他与记忆有关的单词（包括memorable，memorial，remember和memory自身）都来自于拉丁词根memor，意思是 “mindful 记住的”，这是很容易理解的。还有一些远亲，古英语中的gemimor (“众所周知的”)，希腊语的 mermēra (“关照”)，以及梵语 smarati （“他记住”）。自从16世纪，英语世界开始使用commemorate来纪念重要事件的日子。
Examples
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A plaque commemorates the battle that took place on this spot 200 years ago.
这个铭牌用来纪念200年前发生在这个地方的战斗。 -
"The conference will feature presentations by educators and World War II history experts, along with discussions with veterans of the war. It will culminate with a remembrance ceremony at the World War II Memorial, where participants will commemorate veterans of that war. "
— Abigail Austin, The Morning Sentinel (Waterville, Maine), 15 Apr. 2019
本次大会将会有教育专家和二战历史专家做讲演专题，也会有二战老兵参与讨论。 这个大会将会举行二战纪念仪式，在那里与会者将共同怀念参与二战的老兵。
Bonus - Learner’s Word
catastrophe n.
/kəˈtastrəfē/ (from kata- ‘down’ + strophē ‘turning’ (from strephein ‘to turn’).)
: a terrible disaster
[ count ]
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The oil spill was an environmental catastrophe.
- Experts fear a humanitarian catastrophe if food isn’t delivered to the refugees soon.
- global/nuclear/economic catastrophe
[ noncount ]
- an area on the brink of catastrophe
— catastrophic [ˌkætəˈstrɑːfɪk] adj. [more / most] catastrophic
- The effect of the war on the economy was catastrophic.
- a catastrophic drought
— catastrophically [ˌkætəˈstrɑːfɪkli ] adv.
- The dam failed catastrophically, flooding the entire valley.