The Name of a PoetOur teacher was telling us about a new system of memory training being used in some schools today． “It works like this，” she said．“Suppose you wanted tore member the name of a poet—Robert Burns，for instance．”She told us to think of him as Bobby Burns．“Now get in your head a picture of a London policeman，a bobby in flames．See？Bobby Burns！” “I see what you mean，” said the class know it all．“But how can you tell that it's Not Robert Browning？”

我們的老師正在給我們介紹現在某些學校使用的一種新的記憶訓練系統?！斑@個系統是這樣的，”她說?！凹俣阋涀∫粋€詩人的名字——例如，要記住羅伯特·彭斯的名字。”她告訴我們把他當作博比·彭斯?！白屇愕哪X海里閃現出一個倫敦警察的形象，燃燒著的警察。明白嗎？警察燃燒！” “我明白你的意思，”班上的萬事通說。“但是你怎么能說那就不是羅伯特·布朗寧呢？”