The Internet may be changing merely what we remember, not our capacity to do so, suggests Columbia University psychology professor Betsy Sparrow.
哥伦比亚大学心理学教授贝蒂·斯帕罗指出，互联网可能只是改变了我们记住的内容，而不是我们记住的能力。
In 2011, Sparrow led a study in which participants were asked to record 40 factoids in a computer ("an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain," for example).
2011年，斯帕罗领导了一项研究，研究中参与者被要求将40个事实性信息记录在电脑中（例如："鸵鸟的眼睛比大脑大"）。
In other words, human memory is not deteriorating but "adapting to new communications technology," Sparrow says.
换句话说，人类的记忆并没有退化，而是"适应了新的通讯技术"，斯帕罗说。
Some worry that this is having a destructive effect on society but Sparrow sees an upside.
一些人担心这会对社会产生破坏性的影响，但斯帕罗看到了其中的积极面。
I personally have never seen all that much intellectual value in memorizing things," Sparrow says, adding that we haven't lost our ability to do it.
我个人从未在记忆事物中看到太多智力价值，斯帕罗说道，并补充说我们并没有失去这种能力。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。