These are bads of life that could presumably be avoided if only we knew how much exactly we had--how much longer we had.

生命中的一些坏处可以被认为是可避免的,只要我们知道我们到底还有多少，还有多少时间。

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We're trying to understand exactly what changes in your brain when you learn and how those changes persist over time to support memory. And one thing that we know which helps explain why some things are easier to remember than other is that learning is not a unitary process.

我们一直都想查明，学习的时候，大脑到底发生了什么变化，这些变化是如何长时间控制记忆的,我们都知道，学习的过程不是一元化的,这就是为什么有的东西好记，有的东西难记。

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