1 当你聊天聊到一半时，有个词你突然想不起来了。它触手可及......你只求能想起来......于是你不去管它。
几小时后，记忆被某种东西触动，你想起了那个词，但它早就无关紧要了。
There you are in the middle of a conversation, and suddenly you draw a blank on a particular word.
It's right there...if you could just remember... You move on, and hours later,
something jogs your memory and the word comes to you, long after its relevance has passed.
2 到底发生了什么事？你遭遇了研究人员所说的“舌尖状态”，在那痛苦的一刻，
你去确切地知道自己想要说什么，却无法说出那个词或短语。
So, what happened? You experienced what researchers call a tip-of-the-tongue state,
that agonizing moment when you know precisely what you want to say but you fail to produce the word or phrase.
3 已研究该现象20年的佛罗里达大学心理学教授利斯 艾布拉姆斯说：“无论文化，语言和年龄段，
当你描述'舌尖状态'给别人听时，他们都知道你在说什么。”
" You can't talk to anybody, in any culture, in any language, in any age group,
that doesn't know what you are talking about " , said Lise Abrams,
a psychology professor at the University of Florida who has studied the phenomenon for 20 years.
4 这绝非是患上失智症或阿尔茨海默病的迹象，而是我们与人交流过程中的一部分，而且几乎人人都遭遇过。
我们更容易忘记使用频率较低的词----比如abacus（算盘）或palindrome（回文）。
Far from being telltale signs of dementia or Alzheimer's disease, these moments are simply part of the way we communicate, and they're more or less universal.
We are more likely to draw blanks on words we use less frequently-- like abacus or palindrome.
5 坏消息是，遭遇这种情况时，我们能做的旨在触动记忆的事情并不多。
不过，更频繁地使用某些单词或名字，你的大脑才不会总在你试图说出那个词、名字或短语之际一片空白。
The bad news is there is not a whole lot of we can do in the moment to jog our memory when this happens.
However, using certain words or names more often can make you less likely to draw a blank when you are trying to produce that word, name or phrase.
即使我们“话到嘴边”，没有想起来，也没关系的，不是吗？
不过只是偶尔发生而已。对吗？
希望只是偶尔为之。
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