recollect 的詞源

「恢复或回忆知识，将其带回心中或记忆中」，1550年代，来自拉丁语 recollectus，recolligere 的过去分词，意为「再次拾起，恢复」，词源上意为「再次收集」，来自 re-「再次」（参见 re-）+ colligere「收集」（参见 collect (v.)）。相关词： Recollected； recollecting。形式和词源上与 re-collect 相同，但发音和意义依赖于名词 recollection。

Remember implies that a thing exists in the memory, not that it is actually present in the thoughts at the moment, but that it recurs without effort. Recollect means that a fact, forgotten or partially lost to memory, is after some effort recalled and present to the mind. Remembrance is the store-house, recollection the act of culling out this article and that from the repository. He remembers everything he hears, and can recollect any statement when called on. The words, however, are often confounded, and we say we cannot remember a thing when we mean we cannot recollect it. [Century Dictionary, 1895]

Remember 暗示某事存在于记忆中，而不是实际在瞬时思维中存在，但它不费力地反复出现。 Recollect 意味着一个事实，被遗忘或部分遗失于记忆中，经过一些努力后被回忆起并呈现在心中。 Remembrance 是储存库， recollection 是从储存库中挑选出这个和那个的行为。他 remembers 他听到的一切，并且可以 recollect 任何被要求的陈述。然而，这些词常常被混淆，我们说我们不能 remember 一件事，当我们实际上是说我们不能 recollect 它。[世纪词典，1895年]

Beasts and babies remember, i. e. recognize : man alone recollects. This distinction was made by Aristotle. [Southey, "Omniana"]

动物和婴儿记得， i. e. 识别：只有人类 recollects。这个区别是亚里士多德提出的。[索瑟，"Omniana"]