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Most of us can lose our train of thought midway through a sentence but when you're a stand-up comic, it can spell disaster - as comedian Billy Connolly knows. The 70-year-old Scot admitted last week he now suffers from worrying bouts of memory loss on stage and sometimes cannot ?remember his punch lines for gags. 很多人都会说话说到一半短路，但如果你是一名喜剧演员，那就糟糕了--喜剧演员比利·康诺利就知道这个道理。上周，这位70岁的苏格兰演员承认：他现在开始担心记忆力会在上台时下降，有时会忘记让人捧腹大笑的妙语。 His wife Pamela Stephenson puts it down to years of drinking in his early career. But absent-mindedness is not just about "senior moments", says neuropsychologist Dr Joanna Iddon, co-author of Memory Boosters. "In a recent study of healthy adults, the average number of memory slips, like putting the coffee jar in the fridge, was around six per week, irrespective of age, gender and intelligence," says Dr Iddon. 他的妻子帕米拉·斯蒂芬森将其归因于早年饮酒过多。但健忘不仅仅是"老年失忆症"，神经心理学家乔安娜·伊登医生说，她是Memory Boosters一书的合著作者。"近期一项有关健康成年人的研究中，人们一时记不起某事（比如把咖啡壶放到冰箱）的平均数量大概是每周六次，无关年龄、性别和智力，"伊登医生说道。 | 
