The Name of a Poet
Our 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 poetRobert 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?

詩(shī)人的名字
我們的老師正在給我們介紹現(xiàn)在某些學(xué)校使用的一種新的記憶訓(xùn)練系統(tǒng)。這個(gè)系統(tǒng)是這樣的，她說(shuō)，假定你要記住一個(gè)詩(shī)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(dāng)作博比·彭斯，讓你的腦海里閃現(xiàn)出一個(gè)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(wàn)事通說(shuō)，但是你怎么能說(shuō)那就不是羅伯特·布朗寧呢？?