monument
纪念碑,纪念馆,纪念物,纪念品
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- : something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
- : any building, megalith, etc., surviving from a past age, and regarded as of historical or archaeological importance.
- : any enduring evidence or notable example of something: a monument to human ingenuity.
- : an exemplar, model, or personification of some abstract quality, especially when considered to be beyond question: a monument of middle-class respectability.
- : an area or a site of interest to the public for its historical significance, great natural beauty, etc., preserved and maintained by a government.
- : a written tribute to a person, especially a posthumous one.
- : Surveying. an object, as a stone shaft, set in the ground to mark the boundaries of real estate or to mark a survey station.
- : a person considered as a heroic figure or of heroic proportions: He became a monument in his lifetime.
- : Obsolete.a tomb; sepulcher.a statue.
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Scientists have been trying to figure out how ancient people developed their tools and built their cities and monuments.
Like so many of our museums and monuments, it’s always some place you’ve been meaning to go.
Hearing sounds of some kind circulating inside the ancient monument “must have been one of the fundamental experiences of Stonehenge.”
Ginzel said that traditional monuments, such as the Columbus statues, can be problematic because they represent power from a specific point of view.
People living back then often created monuments to frame views of natural features, she says.
The man whom Time dubbed a “Black Leonardo,” became the first African-American to have a national monument dedicated to him.
But, in my mind—and many of the townspeople—the monument was far from the main attraction.
On one occasion, a drone operator flew a drone over a crowd at Mount Rushmore, then out over the monument itself.
At its center was a monument, perhaps just over six feet high.
The entire city can seem like a singular monument to his decades in office.
After his death crowds flocked to his grave to touch his holy monument, till the authorities caused the church yard to be shut.
In a statuesque attitude, she sat, like Marius on the ruins of Carthage, or Patience on a monument smiling at grief.