keepsakes(复数,单数 keepsake):纪念品;留作纪念的小物件(常带有情感价值,用来提醒某段经历或某个人)。
/ˈkiːpseɪks/(复数);/ˈkiːpseɪk/(单数)
I kept the ticket stub as a keepsake.
我把那张票根留作纪念。
Years later, she opened the old box of keepsakes—letters, photos, and a small ring—and remembered the summer that changed her life.
多年后,她打开那只旧纪念盒:信件、照片,还有一枚小戒指,想起了那个改变她一生的夏天。
keepsake 由 keep(保存) + sake(缘故、目的) 组合而来,字面意思是“为了保存而留着的东西”,后来固定指“留作纪念的小物件”。