老外說：看完這4分鐘記憶力提升10倍
作者：Angel Castano
2018-12-25 11:01
老外教你靠視覺記憶法來背單詞啦！走過路過，不要錯過?。ㄎ谋炯爸凶g如下，供參考）
If you'd like to memorize ten times faster, this video will show how easily you can improve. You remember information in two main ways: as words, using your verbal memory, or as pictures, using your visual memory. The different mental processes can achieve dramatically different results. People never believe how absolutely crazy the difference is, so he's a challenge for you and you can prove it for yourself.
如果你想要擁有十倍的記憶力，這個視頻告訴你一個快速提升的方法。記憶信息主要有兩種方式：記憶單詞，運用你的言語記憶；記憶圖片，運用你的視覺記憶。不同的思維過程可以得出兩種完全不同的結(jié)果。人們從來不會相信這兩者的巨大差異，這對你而言是一個挑戰(zhàn)，你可以自己證明這一點。
First let's test your verbal memory. I'll give you a list of ten words and let’s see how many you're able to remember. Here we go:
首先讓我們來測試一下我們的言語記憶。我會給你們一個單詞表，里面有10個單詞，讓我們來看看你能記住多少?，F(xiàn)在開始吧：
Piano
鋼琴
Elephant
大象
Truck
貨車
Bottle
瓶子
Basketball
籃球
Chair
椅子
Pineapple
菠蘿
Dog
狗
Painting
圖畫
Trampoline
蹦床
Ok. Pause the video and write down all the words you can remember.
好的，現(xiàn)在請暫停視頻，寫下你記住的所有單詞。
How did you go? If you are like the average person you were able to recall about five to seven words, not necessarily in the right order, so that was your verbal memory. Now let's test your visual memory. I'll give you another list of words but this time I’ll also give a short story and draw a picture. To activate your visual memory just create a mental picture of everything I described and draw. You can even close your eyes if you want and just listen to my voice. Here we go:
怎么樣了？如果你能像其他人一樣記住5-7個單詞，而且順序也不同，這就是言語記憶法的效果了?，F(xiàn)在讓我們一起來測試一下視覺記憶.我會給你另外一個單詞表，但是這次我會給你講一個小故事，外加一幅圖畫。為了刺激你的視覺記憶，你只需要在腦海中構(gòu)造一幅畫面，畫面要和我講述的故事以及那副圖畫有關(guān)。如果你愿意的話，你可以閉上你的眼睛，聽我講解即可?，F(xiàn)在開始：
FERRARI
法拉利
Imagine you're driving a bright red Ferrari with the top down. The music is pumping about the throaty growl of the engine and your hair is blowing in the wind.
想象一下，你正在駕駛一輛大紅色的敞篷法拉利，音樂隨著引擎低沉的咆哮聲跳動，你的秀發(fā)隨風飄散。
CHICKEN
小雞
With a loud ‘thump’ a giant chicken lands in the seat next to you. It's the size of a person, enormous, and yellow, it must've fallen out of the sky.
隨著一聲巨響，一只巨大的雞坐到了你的身旁。這是一只超大的，有人那樣大小的黃色的雞，它可能從天上掉下來。
WATERMELON
西瓜
The chicken opens the car door and leaps out onto the road. As it stands there, an enormous green watermelon roles over the top of it and keeps rolling down the road.
這只雞打開了車門，跳到了路上。當這只雞站在那邊的時候，一只巨大的綠色西瓜壓在這只雞身上，不斷滾向這條馬路的前方。
BARACK OBAMA
巴拉克·奧巴馬
You watch the watermelon roll down the road and straight into Barack Obama. The watermelon splits in half and Obama is left standing there dripping in watermelon juice.
你眼睜睜地看著這只西瓜朝著奧巴馬的方向不斷滾動著。這只西瓜對半分開了，奧巴馬就在左邊那一半的西瓜旁站著喝西瓜汁。
POODLE
卷毛狗
Obama picks up a passing poodle and uses it to wipe juice off his face. The poodle is pure white but as it soaks up water melon juice it slowly turns bright pink.
奧巴馬撿起一只路過的貴賓犬，用它來擦拭臉上的果汁。本來純白的貴賓犬，一沾到西瓜汁就慢慢變成了明亮的粉紅色。
FLAGPOLE
旗桿
Obama throws the poodle away, flies through the air in lands on the top of a tall flagpole. The weigh of the white poodle causes the flagpole to slowly topple over.
奧巴馬將貴賓犬扔向一邊，它隨風飄逝，最后停留在了一根高聳的旗桿上。白色貴賓犬的重量將這根旗桿慢慢地壓彎。
CAKE
蛋糕
With a loud and messy ‘splat’ the flagpole falls into the middle of an enormous birthday cake. Icing, cream and candles go flying everywhere, raining down on people passing by.
隨著響亮、刺耳的一聲“啪嗒聲”，整個旗桿倒向了一個巨型的生日蛋糕。糖霜、奶油、蠟燭四處飛散，落在了過往的行人身上。
DOLL
洋娃娃
A large dollop of cream lands on the head of an oversized Barbie doll. It creates a wierd chemical reaction and the doll shoots into the sky like a space rocket, blonde hair trailing behind her.
一團巨大的奶油落到了一個超大的芭比娃娃頭上。這造成一種奇怪的化學反應，洋娃娃“嗖”的一下像火箭一樣飛向了天空，金色的發(fā)絲全部飛到了腦后。
PIZZA
披薩
The doll rockets upwards and just as it starts to fall a large pizza exploits open above her head like a parachute. The pizza is attached to the doll by long streams of melted cheese.
洋娃娃火箭不斷上升，正當它要下落的時候，一個巨大的披薩像降落傘一樣作用在它的頭部。整個披薩通過眾多的奶酪絲和洋娃娃聯(lián)結(jié)。
GIRAFFE
長頸鹿
The pizza eventually lands on the ground covering the doll, and a giraffe walks over and starts eating the pizza bending its long neck and stretching its tongue to lick up the delicious cheese.
最終，整個披薩覆蓋在了洋娃娃身上，落到了地上，一只長頸鹿剛好經(jīng)過這里，它開始彎著長長的脖子品嘗披薩，伸著舌頭舔舐美味的芝士。
SKATEBOARD
滑板
After eating too much cheese, the giraffe pulls out a skateboard, jumps on it and starts gliding down the street, ducking signs and street lights as it rolls along.
吃了太多的芝士后，長頸鹿拿出了一塊滑板，跳上它，開始在街上滑行，前行的時候不斷躲避著路邊的標志物和街燈。
CIGARETTE
香煙
The skateboard begins coughing and it stops and uses one of its wheels to light a cigarette. The cigarette becomes engulfed in flames and the skateboard throws it away.
這塊滑板咳嗽了起來，它停下來，用它其中一個輪子點燃了一根香煙。整根香煙都燃燒了起來，滑板立即扔掉了它。
STATUE OF LIBERTY
自由女神像
The flaming cigarette flies through the air and lands on the torch being held aloft by the statue of liberty. The torch bursts into flames too.
燃燒著的香煙隨風飄散，最后停在了自由女神像高舉著的火炬上。整個火炬也燃燒了起來。
ICE CREAM
冰激凌
The Statue of Liberty comes alive and thrusts the burning torch deep into a big bucket of?Ice-cream. It’s cherry-chocolate ice-cream that melts and starts to bubble ominously.
自由女神像活了過來，她將燃燒著的火炬擠壓成了一桶冰激凌。櫻桃巧克力口味的冰激凌開始融化，不斷吐著泡泡。
FIREWORKS
煙火
The ice cream explodes into fireworks lighting up the sky above the Statue of Liberty with brightly coloured fireworks forming the words: ‘The End’.
冰激凌成了煙火散開在自由女神像的上空，形成了這樣的字體：“完結(jié)”。
OK, pause the video again and write down how many words you're able to recall using your visual memory. The trick is to recreate the picture in your mind of each image in this story.
好了，現(xiàn)在再一次將視頻暫停，看看靠著視覺記憶，你能寫下多少單詞。這樣的技巧都是為了將整個故事的圖像重新在你的腦海中形成畫面。
Did you see the difference? And I did something sneaky: I gave you 15 words not 10, but the average person would have been able to recall from 10 up to all 15 words, and mostly in the correct order.
你看出其中的差別了嗎？我耍了一點小花招：我剛剛列出了15個單詞而不是10個，但是大部分人都能回憶起10到15個單詞，而且是正確的順序。
Visual memory techniques have been around for thousands of years but for some strange reason most people only know verbal memory techniques. They can be fantastic for a small number of words but they don't activate the amazing power of your visual memory.
視覺記憶法已經(jīng)存在了約數(shù)千年，但由于某種奇怪的原因，大部分人只知道言語記憶法。言語記憶法只對于少部分的單詞有效，但遠不及視覺記憶所擁有的神奇效果。
Thanks for watching.
感謝觀賞。
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