About 25 years ago, Wegner and his collaborator andfuture wife, Toni, had an insight into how memory works, sparked by a questionabout where they had stored a sponge used for washing the car.

大约25年前，韦格纳和他的搭档托尼（他未来的妻子），曾研究过记忆是如何工作的，是从他们把用来洗车的海绵放在了哪里的问题上引发的思考。

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He was washing his car with a sponge.

他用一块海绵擦汽车。

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Leah and McGuffin were washing his car and horsing around with a wet sponge.

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