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.
