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From the most dramatic moment in life – the day of your birth – to first steps, first words, first food, right up to nursery school, most of us can’t remember anything of our first few years. How come? 从你一生当中最激动人心的时刻——你的出生日——开始，到初次走路，初次说话，初次吃东西，一直到上幼儿园，我们大多数人不记得生命长河中头几年的事情了。这是怎么回事呢? This gaping hole in the record of our lives has been baffling psychologists, neuroscientists and linguists for decades. It was a minor obsession of the father of psychotherapy, Sigmund Freud, who coined the phrase ‘infant amnesia’ over 100 years ago. 我们生命记录中的这一空白已经困扰心理学家、神经系统科学家和语言学家数十年了。心理疗法之父西格蒙德·弗洛伊德对此也颇有研究，他于100多年前创造了“婴儿健忘症“一词。 Part of the puzzle comes from the fact that babies are, in other ways, sponges for new information, forming 700 new neural connections every second and wielding language-learning skills to make the most accomplished polyglot green with envy. The latest research suggests they begin training their minds before they’ve even left the womb. 从另一方面来说，该困惑的部分原因在于婴儿能够不断吸收新的信息，每秒钟可形成700个新的神经连接，并通过语言习得技能引得精通数国语言的人投之以羡慕之情。最新的研究表明，他们甚至在母亲分娩之后便开始训练自己的大脑了。 | 
