recollection

souvenir

Ce que l’on garde en mémoire d’une expérience passée.

En anglais simple : Something you remember about a past experience.

• My earliest recollection is of our garden.
• She shared some happy recollections of school.
• Do you have any recollection of meeting him?

Comment l'utiliser : a recollection of something/doing something (I have a clear recollection of visiting that house.)

Synonymes : memory, remembrance

Expressions courantes : vivid recollection, childhood recollection, recollection of something

mémoire

Capacité à se souvenir du passé, ou période jusqu’à laquelle remontent les souvenirs.

En anglais simple : The ability to remember past events, or the time your memory reaches back to.

• Her powers of recollection remain strong.
• To my recollection, the shop opened in May.
• Nothing like this has happened within my recollection.

Comment l'utiliser : to the best of someone’s recollection (To the best of my recollection, we arrived before noon.)

Synonymes : memory, recall

Contraires : forgetfulness

Expressions courantes : to my recollection, within my recollection, powers of recollection