Sunday, May 18, 2008

A word "memory"

"She has a good memory for names."

At first, I thought she has a kind of good experience or affairs about her name, somebody praised her name or something. (I missed the plural form of name.)
So I thought it was a bit strange example sentence. But...

The meaning of the sentence was that she is good at remembering names.

Oh, I've learned the idiom "have a good (bad/poor) memory for" before. At that time, I wondered how I could distinguish meaning of memory between "ability of remember" and "good or bad affairs in the past". I might have written about that on this blog.
Then I thought the same thing again in this time.

I have a really poor memory for English learning.

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