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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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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As the audience, the effective way of this is to avoid and reject the information not consistent with their own opinions through selective acceptance, selective cognition and selective memory.

作为受众，避免认知失调的有效方法，就是通过选择性接触、选择性认识和选择性记忆来回避、抵制那些与自己原有意见相抵触的讯息。

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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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