While the authors write that a person is more likely to be accurate when he is more confident in his memory, an expression of confidence is a limited predictor of memory accuracy.

作者在书中写道当一个人对自己的记忆力很自信时，他说的更有可能是准确的，在有限范围内，表现出自信能代表一个人记忆的准确性。

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Cryptomnesia is a memory bias that occurs when a person mistakenly believes that they have come up with an original thought, idea, song or joke, when it was actually generated by someone else.

“潜隐记忆”是一种记忆偏误，发生在人们错误地以为自己创造了一个原创的而实际上是别人的想法、观点、歌曲或笑话的时候。

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A truly funny person has a joke for every occasion, when one is told, that triggers an entire string of jokes from that person's memory bank.

一个真正风趣的人在任何场合都有笑话可讲，而且讲了一个笑话，就会从他记忆里引出一连串的笑话。

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He wouldn't allow the defense to argue that no one's memory is infallible and blocked testimony from an expert witness who had made extensive studies of memory--especially what happens when a person handles the multitudinous tasks Libby was tackling 14 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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