關鍵字彙：
cherish/ evocative/ evoke/ nostalgia/ oblivion/ oblivious/ redolent/ reminiscence/ retrospective/ tenacious
1. 心裡「懷抱著」希望、愛或其它情感用cherish：
•He cherished the memory of his dead wife.
2. 「喚起」記憶用evoke，「使想起…的」用evocative或redolent：
•The village scenery evoked the memory of her hometown.
•The taste of these cakes is evocative of my childhood.
•The movie was redolent of olden times.
•This was an old house redolent of mystery.
3. 「回顧的」、「反思的」叫retrospective，「回憶」可用reminiscence，「懷舊」或「鄉愁」叫nostalgia：
•Only when we are retrospective can we appreciate the tremendous advances made during this century.
•She was looking at the stars, enjoying the pleasures of reminiscence.
•The first settler found so much work to do that they had little time for nostalgia.
•He felt nostalgia for the old homestead.
4. 「記憶力好的」可用tenacious，好像忘記般「渾然不知的」叫oblivious，這種遺忘的情境或狀態叫oblivion：
•We all admire his tenacious memory.
•The melancholy girl was walking in the rain, oblivious of her surroundings.
•His works had fallen into a state of oblivion; no one bothered to read them any more.
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