Airbags protect the driver in the event of a severe frontal impact.

汽车若遇到正面猛烈撞击，安全气囊可以保护驾车者。

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Encoding, Schacter explains, is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major impact on recalling it later.

沙克特解释说：“编码是一种特殊的方式，它能让你把注意力集中到一件事上，而这件事对你以后回忆起它有很大的影响。”

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Encoding, is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major impact on recalling it later.

编码是一种特殊的方式，能让你把注意力集中到一件事上，对你以后回想起它有很大影响。

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Where the Impact is both the emotional impact of an event such as how dramatic or outrageous it is, and the actual impact in terms of number of lives affected, money lost etc.

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The impact of an event on either the macroeconomic or geopolitical stage could result in a swing in oil prices.

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"It's obviously hard to know what the impact of an event like that is on the way that lawmakers and others in Washington approach other issues, " Carney told reporters.

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