Jog my memory, lose your memory
(Collocations with memory)
-Answers to the exercise

1. People begin to lose their memory as they get older.
2. When you receive your PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER, please commit it to memory and then destroy the paper.
3. Last summer was one of the hottest in living memory.
4. I don't remember all the details of the report, you'll have to refresh my memory.
5. My mother has an excellent memory for faces. She never forgets anyone.
6. I have a terrible memory for names. Unless I meet someone half a dozen times, I'll never remember who they are.
7. My Uncle Jack's incredible. He can recite hundreds of poems from memory.
8. If my memory serves me well, I think we met last year at the Nagoya conference.

NOTES:
In the examples we looked at in this week's one-point lesson, memory refers to the ability to remember （記憶力）. We can also use the word, memory, to refer to special times and events that we remember （記憶）. Here are some typical collocations that we can use for this meaning of memory:


• My earliest childhood memory is of the time I tried to give chocolate to a dog and it bit me.
• I have many pleasant memories of my 3 years in Malaysia.
• These old songs really bring back memories.
• When we visited my old school, so many memories came flooding back.
• My most abiding memory of my headmaster is the way he used to shout, "YOU BOY!!!" down the school corridor.
  

(My most abiding memory = the single thing I remember most about a particular thing).

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