Immediately after hearing something, most of us can recall only 50% of what we hear. Within two to eight weeks, we can recall only 25% or less of the original message.

一听完某件事，大多数人只能记住其中之一的50%，两至八个星期内，我们只能记得原信息的25%，甚至更少。

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But after hearing that youngster, ms Boyd, a social-media researcher at Microsoft research New England, felt that something more than whimsy might be at work.

然而，作为微软新英格兰研究中心的一名社会与媒体研究人员，波伊德女士在听完那位年轻人的描述之后，却感到事情背后或许大有蹊跷。

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Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing.

爱丽丝想反正没什么事，不如在这儿等一等，也许最后它会说一点儿值得听的话的。

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In describing her questioning by investigators, the witness remembered expressing that she should have done something more, in retrospect, after hearing the cries for help.

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You are Kelsey Fitzgibbons, Evan Gallo, and Megan Welsh, who, after hearing and seeing the devastation in Haiti, decided to do something to help and used their creativity to bring the campus community together for a common cause.

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