If you can’t remember your PIN number, try closing your eyes.
如果你忘记了你的密码，试一下闭上你的眼睛。
Experiments show that recall is boosted when we shut out the outside world.
实验结果表明，当我们闭上眼睛不关注外面世界的时候，我们的记忆力会被提高。
It is thought that blocking out distractions frees up the necessary brainpower to remember things. Psychologists from the University of Surrey put the theory to test by showing almost 200 men and women short films and asking them a series of questions about what they had seen.
阻断干扰被认为可以释放必要的脑力去记忆事情。来自塞瑞大学的心理学家为证明这个理论进行了如下实验：通过给大约200名男性和女性展示一些短片并问他们一系列关于他们看到了什么的问题。
The first film clip was silent and showed an electrician stealing as he carried out jobs in a house.
第一个短片是无声的，可以看到一名电工在一个住宅内工作时正在偷窃。
The volunteers then answered a series of questions about what they had seen – and half of them did this with their eyes closed. Those whose eyes were open got just 48 per cent of the answers right on average – a score much lower than the 71 per cent achieved by those who had shut their eyes.
然后参加实验的志愿者回答了一系列关于他们看到什么的问题——其中有一半人是闭着眼睛回忆的。那些睁开眼睛去回忆的志愿者只有48%的回答正确率，与那些闭着眼睛回忆的志愿者的71%的回答正确率相比，实在低了许多。
Having built up a rapport with the questioner boosted scores further.
和被提问者建立了融洽的关系后，回答正确分数将会进一步提高。
The second film clip came from the BBC series Crimewatch and included sound as well as images.
而第二个短片则来自英国广播公司系列犯罪影片，既由声音也有图像，同样证实了结论。
