"Whatever gets people thinking or talking about an event is a useful tool, " Sims says.

“只要能让大家思考或讨论某个活动，就是有用的通道。”席姆思这么说。

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Yeats is talking about an event that has brought forth destruction, destruction of the world before the Easter Uprising.

叶芝描绘了这样一个事件,它带来了毁灭，对复活节前世界的毁灭。

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you can be talking about an event.

谈论一个活动。

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Professor Elizabeth Loftus at the University of California-Irvine, who specializes in memory, said myths continue to be validated when people start talking with others about an event.

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"The pleasure of sport lies not so much in witnessing an event as talking about it, " Ellis Cashmore, professor of Culture, Media and Sport at England's Staffordshire University, told CNN recently.

CNN: July 24, 2012 -- Updated 2201 GMT (0601 HKT)