【英语时差8,16】记忆的奥秘

Do you remember who won the world series in nineteen sixty- eight, but forget where you left your keys? Are you great at remembering all the details of a story, but lousy when it comes to remembering people’s names? What our brains choose to remember, and exactly how they do it, has been the subject of scientific inquiry¹ for quite some time. Several years ago researchers were able to observe some of the changes taking place in the brain as memories form. The technology that allows scientists to do this is a scanning machine called an M. R. I., or magnetic resonance² imaging machine. This is able to make a real-time, three- dimensional map of certain characteristics of blood flow inside someone’s brain.

1 inquiry   

n.打听，询问，调查，查问

参考例句：

• Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
• The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。

2 resonance   

n.洪亮；共鸣；共振

参考例句：

• Playing the piano sets up resonance in those glass ornaments.一弹钢琴那些玻璃饰物就会产生共振。
• The areas under the two resonance envelopes are unequal.两个共振峰下面的面积是不相等的。