[mass noun]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。 ■[count noun]a thing recollected; a memory 回忆起的事物(或景象),往事;回忆录 a biography based on his wife's recollections. 根据他妻子的回忆写成的传记。 ■( Philosophy)(in Platonic thought) anamnesis (哲)(柏拉图思想)(对前世生活的)回忆,回想
派生 recollective adjective 语源
late 16th cent. (denoting gathering things together again): from French or medieval Latin recollectio(n-), from the verb recolligere 'gather again' (see recollect)