Memory Like an Elephant——記性極好
** to be able to remember things easily and for a long period of time（能夠輕鬆地長時間記住事物）
~~ mind like a sponge// mind like a steel trap
~~記憶力非常好；記憶力特別好；極好的記憶力；有驚人的記憶力。
!! The origin of this saying may have come about because of the size of the elephant’s brain.An Asiatic elephant’s brain weighs as much as 16.5 pounds. This much mass makes the brain of an elephant the biggest brain of all land animals.
（這種說法的起源可能是因為大象大腦的大小而產生的。亞洲象的大腦重達16.5磅。這麼大的體積使大象的大腦成為所有陸地動物中最大的腦。）
!! Elephants do have excellent memory because they must remember the widespread locations of their sustenance during a dry spells. Also, elephants allegedly remember where their burial grounds are and go there to die.
（大象確實有很好的記憶力，因為他們在乾旱天氣期間必須記得他們藏食物的廣泛位置，據說大象記得他們的墓地在哪裡並到那裡死去。）
If you have a memory like an elephant, you will find it hard to forgive and forget those who have offended you.
（如果你記性極好，你會發現很難既往不咎曾冒犯了你的人。）
>> Dr. Sui Choy Yip, the master of memory of the world, can within six months successfully memorize the 1,774-page Oxford Advanced English-Chinese Dictionary. He has a memory like an elephant.
（世界記憶大師葉瑞財博士，能成功在六個月內記住一千七百七十四頁的牛津高階英漢字典，他有超強記憶力。）
學勤進修教育中心英語專科導師 李啟文 教授