特别广播英语第 20 课：Improving your Memory 增强记忆力的方法-3

Association refers to taking the material we want to remember and relating it to something we remember accurately. "建立联想"指的是把我们要记的材料和我们已经精确的记住的材料之间联想起来。

In memorizing a number, you might try to associate it with familiar numbers or events. 要记住一个数字，你可以把这一数字与你已经熟悉的数字或事情联系起来。

Fox example, the height of Mount Fuji in Japan - 12,389 feet - might be remembered using the following associations:例如：日本富士山的海拔高度是12，389英尺，你可以把这一数字用下列联想方法：

12 is the number of months in the year, and 389 is the number of days in a year (365) added to the number of months twice (24). 一年有12个月，389是一年365天再加上一年12个月乘上2（24）。

The last principle is visualization. Research has shown striking improvements in many types of memory tasks when people are asked to visualize the items to be remembered. "直观形象"是最后一种方法。研究的结果已经表明，如果让人们把要记忆的事物都想象出生动的直观形象，在完成各种不同类型的记忆工作中，记忆都会产生惊人的效果。

In one study, subjects in one group were asked to learn some words using imagery, while the second group used repetition to learn the words. 有一项调查研究：要求一组受试者使用直观形象法来记住一些生词，在此相对照的第二组受试者只用重复法来记住这些生词。

Those using imagery remembered 80 to 90 percent of the words, compared with 30 to 40 percent of the words for those who memorized by repetition. 调查结果是，凡是能用直观形象法记生词的人都能记住80%-90%，在之成鲜明对比的是，凡是用机械重复法记生词的人只能记住30%-40%。

Thus forming an integrated image with all the information placed in a single mental picture can help us to preserve a memory. 这种能形成一幅完整的形象，把所有的信息都存放到脑海里的一幅画面中去的方法，有助于我们储存记忆材料。