The Name of a PoetOur teacher was telling us about a new system of memory training being used in some schools today． “It works like this，” she said．“Suppose you wanted tore member the name of a poet—Robert Burns，for instance．”She told us to think of him as Bobby Burns．“Now get in your head a picture of a London policeman，a bobby in flames．See？Bobby Burns！” “I see what you mean，” said the class know it all．“But how can you tell that it's Not Robert Browning？”

我們的老師正在給我們介紹現(xiàn)在某些學(xué)校使用的一種新的記憶訓(xùn)練系統(tǒng)?！斑@個系統(tǒng)是這樣的，”她說。“假定你要記住一個詩人的名字——例如，要記住羅伯特·彭斯的名字?！彼嬖V我們把他當(dāng)作博比·彭斯。“讓你的腦海里閃現(xiàn)出一個倫敦警察的形象，燃燒著的警察。明白嗎？警察燃燒！” “我明白你的意思，”班上的萬事通說。“但是你怎么能說那就不是羅伯特·布朗寧呢？”