mindmap root((回忆)) memory applies both to the capacity to bring back what one has once experienced or known and to what is remembered: no ~ of that incident. remembrance applies to the act of remembering or the fact of being remembered: any ~ of his deceased wife was painful. recollection suggests the act of consciously bringing back to mind often with some effort or the thing brought back: after a moment's ~ he produced the name. reminiscence suggests the act of recalling incidents, experiences, or feelings from a remote past or things so recalled: recorded my grandmother's ~s of her Iowa girlhood.