keepsake

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.
    — And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.
  2. Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps of poetry and prose, and engravings. historical
    — He had brought the last “Keepsake,” the gorgeous watered-silk publication which marked modern progress at that time; and he considered himself very fortunate that he could be the first to look over it with her, dwelling on the ladies and gentlemen with shiny copper-plate cheeks and copper-plate smiles, and pointing to comic verses as capital and sentimental stories as interesting.

词形变化

keepsakes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
keepsaky

词源

From keep + sake.
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