memoir

• n. 回顧録；研究；自伝；ファクトシート

ラテン語のmemoria、記憶、回想から。語源的には記憶と同じ。

memoir (n.)

early 15c., "written record," from Anglo-French memorie "note, memorandum, something written to be kept in mind" (early 15c., Old French memoire), from Latin memoria (see memory). Meaning "person's written account of his life" is from 1670s.

1. She wrote a memoir of her stay in France.

彼女は旅法記事録を書いた。

2.He has just published a memoir in honour of his captain.

彼はリーダーを記念する伝記を出したばかりだ。

3.In 1858 he sent me a memoir on this subject.

彼は1858年、本題に関する論文を送ってくれた。

4.That Sir Max reveals little about himself in this memoir hardly matters.

マルクス卿は回顧録で自分のことをほとんど言及していない。

5.That volcanologist was busying with memoir after his retirement.

引退後、その火山学者は回顧録の執筆に追われていた。