有一天，她给研究记忆的神经科学专家吉姆·麦克高发了一封电子邮件，声称自己能回忆起12岁以来每一天的经历。

Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher Jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12.

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毫无疑问，谈论一个人的过去的能力代表了一种和简单的认知或回忆复杂程度不同的记忆。

No doubt the ability to talk about one's past represents memory of a different level of complexity than simple recognition or recall.

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当我们回忆记忆时，我们的大脑通常会自动补充一些细节，而这些细节往往是没有发生过的。

When we tap our memory, our brains often fill in details and quite often these details are actually false.

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It can't be that he's got mixed together memories of growing up in France and memories of growing up in Detroit.

他不可能拥有混合的记忆，既有在法国长大的回忆,也有底特律长大的回忆。

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So, so far the American landscape is already a work of art, already part of a European memory. Then something else happens: "But gradually the models of those elementary rusticities became stranger and stranger to the eye, the nearer I came to know them.

至此关于美国景色的回忆已经是一件艺术品了，已经包含一部分欧洲记忆，之后发生了一些事：,然而渐渐地，我越熟悉那些田园风光的基本模式,越看它们越觉得陌生。

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