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小词详解 | amnesia
amnesia 英 [æmˈniːziə] 美 [æmˈniːʒə]
He concluded that selective amnesia took hold soon after the war, as victors told their version of history, and the British displayed their genius for forgetting defeats.
他得出结论说,在战后很快会出现这种选择性失忆:胜利者会讲述自己版本的历史,而英国人则展现出了忘却失败的才华。
——《经济学人》Oh, and she has amnesia and doesn’t remember Toretto.
噢,她得了失忆症,不记得托雷托了。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 记忆部分或全部丧失
那次令人疲乏的长途旅程后,他患了失忆症,发作了几次。
After the long and weary journey he suffered periods of amnesia.
经历了这场战争的惨败之后,他们似乎对该国持续时间最长的军事冲突产生了一种故意的遗忘,这种健忘症持续了近十年。
After the debacle of the war, they seemed to develop a willful forgetfulness about the nation's longest military conflict, an amnesia that lasted for nearly a decade.
But how convenient this amnesia is, how much it excuses!
这种遗忘症是多方便,能用它为多少事情作挡箭牌呀!
forgetfulness: lapse of memory oblivion: the state of being forgotten, especially by the public blackout: a temporary loss of memory during a period of alcohol intoxication