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MEMORY__记忆
Joyce wanted to have a feature about memory.__乔伊斯想要了解记忆的特征。
She and her editors all agreed to write short articles on this topic.__她和她的编辑们都同意就这个主题写一些短文。
ARTHUR__亚瑟
I read in a book that we have a short-term memory and a long-term memory.__我在一本书中读到：我们有短期记忆和长期记忆。
When people get older, their short-term memory becomes worse, but we can still remember things that happened a long time ago.__当人老了的时候，他们的短期记忆变得更糟，但是我们却还记得发生在很长时间以前的事情。
My Grandad told me a joke about memory.__我爷爷给我讲了一个关于记忆的笑话。
He said, When you get old, three things start to go wrong .__他说，“当你老了的时候，有三件事开始变糟了。
First, you start to lose your memory.__首先，你的记忆力开始衰退。
And I can't remember what the other things are!__还有，我不记得另外两件事是什么了！
JOYCE__乔伊斯
Memory is essential for life.__记忆对于生活来说是本质性的。
I saw a programme on television about a man who had had an accident and injured his brain.__我在电视上看到了一个节目，说的是一个人出了事故而且伤到了他的大脑。
Afterwards, he could not remember anything for longer than a few minutes.__后来，他所记忆的任何事情都只是持续几分钟而已。
His wife visited him in hospital every day but he forgot her visits a few minutes after she left.__他的妻子每天都来看他，但在她离开几分钟之后，他就忘记了妻子的探望。
He was often angry with her because he thought that she never visited him.__他常常生她的气，因为他认为她从来都没有探望过他。
It was very sad.__真是可悲啊。
PANSY__潘西
One basic way of improving your memory is to use the link method.__提高你记忆的一个最基本的方法是使用联系法。
If you want to memorize something you must make a picture in your mind.__如果你想记忆某事，你必须在你的头脑中形成一幅图画。
If the picture is silly, strange and colourful, you will remember it better.__如果图片是可笑的，奇异的和丰富多彩的，你就会记得更清楚。
For example I am trying to remember the word smiles.__就像我在努力识记“smiles”这个单词一样。
An easy way to do this is to imagine there is a ‘mile’ between the first letter and the last letter.__做到这一点的一个简易的途径就是想象一下——在第一个和最后一个字母之间有一“英里”的距离。
This makes it the longest word in the world!__这便形成了世界上最长的单词！
TONY __托尼
In the Guinness Book of Records, we can find some amazing stories about memory.__在吉尼斯世界记录中，我们能发现一些令人惊奇的关于记忆的故事。
For example, Gong Yang ling from Harbin in China has memorized more than 15,000telephone numbers.__例如，来自于中国哈尔滨的龚杨玲记住了15000多个电话号码。
And Dominic O'Brien from Britain remembered the correct order of 1,820 playing cards, after seeing them just once.__来自于英国的多米尼克记住了1，820张扑克牌的正确顺序，而且只看了一遍。
MILLIE__米莉
Memory is connected with our feelings.__记忆与我们的感觉相联系。
For example, if someone says ‘This is a spider,’ and then puts a large spider on your hand,__例如，如果有人说‘这是蜘蛛，’接着便把一只大蜘蛛放在了你的手上，
you will probably remember the word ‘spider’!__你很可能会记住‘蜘蛛’这个单词！
When something dramatic happens, we usually remember it well, and we also remember where we were and what we were doing.__当某些戏剧性事件发生的时候，我们通常能记得很清楚，而且我们还能记住自己当时在哪儿以及我们在做着什么。
For example ,98％ of older people in the USA can remember where they were when they heard about the death of President John F Kennedy in 1963.__例如：年龄稍长的美国人于1963年听到约翰F肯尼迪总统的死讯时，有98%的人依然记得当时他们正在哪里。
