【英语时差8,16】虚妄记忆综合症（上）

Did you ever have the experience of going through an old photo album or home movie you haven’t seen in years, and saying to yourself…”Wait a minute…that’s not how it was!” If so, you’re already aware of how tricky¹ a thing memory is. You may have an entirely² vivid and seemingly reliable memory of some particular aspect of the past which those old photos prove to be false. While these seem like oddball experiences, modern psychology³ is recognizing that much of our memory works this way. It’s by no means the stable, objective record of events people take it to be. In fact, people’s memories can rather easily be changed and new ones inserted. That’s a surprising claim to make, so let me say it again: people’s memories can be changed. It’s called “false memory syndrome,” and has nothing to do with age or intelligence.

1 tricky   

adj.狡猾的，奸诈的；(工作等)棘手的，微妙的

参考例句：

• I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手，你能帮我吗？
• He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题，只做了个笼统的表述。

2 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

3 psychology   

n.心理，心理学，心理状态

参考例句：

• She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
• He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。