We seem to have a selective memory for the best bits of the past.

我们似乎对过去最美好的时光有选择性的记忆。

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Selective memory? Perhaps keeps firmly in mind all sad happy?

选择性记忆？或是牢记所有的悲喜？

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But in free societies, selective memory cannot be imposed for ever.

但是在自由社会当中，选择性遗忘不可能永远强加在人身上。

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Everybody has got kind of a selective memory here, but nobody was sure whether the economy was going to hold up.

WHITEHOUSE: Rebuilding the Economy, Creating New Jobs

This is the moment to which you can trace so much of what would come to be known as Gaullism, the moment when selective memory would begin to play its indispensable role in the rebuilding of France.

BBC: Part Two - France and Memory

Nussbaum's essay was a patent example of selective multicultural memory.

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