monument和memorial的区别

Memorials are often related todeath and destruction: World Trade CenterMEMORIAL, Martin Luther King Jr. MEMORIAL or Titanic Wreckage MEMORIAL Bouye. Amonument tends to be built to remember a significant person or event in historyor a time period. The Empire State Building,for example, is a MonUMENT of the booming American economy of the period andthe Arc de Triumph is a MonUMENT to military victories. Of course there is someblurrying between the definitions, but this tends to be the trend: Memorials:More somber, remembrance. Monuments: more of a mark of achievement or historicmarker. (and there are some monuments, such as the WashingtonMonument, which -- although built afterWashington's death (so a memorial) is more_symbolic_ of Washington'sideals and the constructs of American freedoms - making it a monument)”