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I was going through some Japanese phrases when this came up： 「写真は良い思い出になります。」

According to my limited Japanese knowledge, that means "Pictures become great
memories." However, the translation present in the source material is
"Pictures make for great souvenirs."

I looked up 思い出, but couldn't find "souvenir" as a definition. I was just
wondering which of the translations are correct, since the disparity of
meaning between them is too big for both to be correct.
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「写真は良い思い出になります。」 "Pictures make for great souvenirs"?
As far as I can tell, 'Pictures become great memories' is a literal
translation whereas 'Pictures make for great souvenirs' is a translation that
is more contextualised (You keep pictures for the sentimental value, thus they
are keepsakes/souvenirs/momentos).
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You might look at the French entry (noun) in
[Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/souvenir#Noun_3) -- 'souvenir' is
originally the French for 思い出 and is still used in that sense sometimes, as in
the piano duet suite _Souvenirs_ by Samuel Barber, nostalgic look back to the
1920s. The origin of the "tourist" meaning is that you bring back things to
remind you where you went, whereas お土産 originally means things you give to
other people so they know where you've been.
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