![]() His doctor said we had a window of opportunity to restore his memories and the more we could help him recall now the less permanent damage might be. If Sam could not remember, I would be alone in that landscape. To break up with someone is to lose the imagined future you would create together, but you would always share the landscape of your collective past. And if he couldn’t remember the joy, it may as well have never happened. He couldn’t remember our strolls down Brick Lane in our Sunday best or dancing in a field with our friends. He couldn’t have recalled, for example, that first tree-climbing date, or how the next morning he went to buy us breakfast and returned with three boxes of cake from a French patisserie, and we ate strawberry cream puffs naked in bed with our bare hands. He knew who I was but couldn’t remember what I did or how we met. ![]() His childhood was intact, but the last few years - the span of our entire relationship - had vanished. ![]() He didn’t know he was about to start a graduate program at the Central Saint Martins or that he lived in a dilapidated warehouse in Whitechapel with a pet rabbit. I soon realized it wasn’t just his short-term memory. He greeted each nurse as if they were visiting for tea. He was still eloquent and charming in his incoherence, as if trying to talk his way out of the abyss of amnesia. His mind would restart every few minutes, causing a stream of kaleidoscopic ramblings. The head trauma had caused short-term memory loss, significant enough that several times Sam tried to get out of bed in confusion and fell. “You were in an accident,” I said, “but you’re safe now.” Then he whispered, “I don’t know why I’m here?” I tried to see beyond the bandages and tubes, the metalwork bonding his bones. I remember that it used to snow quite a lot → Je me rappelle qu'il neigeait assez souvent., Je me souviens qu'il neigeait assez souvent.When I arrived, Sam was sitting up in bed. I don't remember having spoken to him at all → Je ne rappelle pas lui avoir parlé du tout. I remember having seen it → Je me rappelle l'avoir vu. To remember doing sth, to remember having done sth → se rappeler avoir fait qch I remembered to lock the door → J'ai pensé à fermer la porte à clef.īUT N'oubliez pas d'écrire votre nom sur le formulaire. To remember to do sth → penser à faire qch He remembered the man well → Il se souvenait bien de l'homme., Il se rappelait bien l'homme. I can't remember his name → Je ne me souviens pas de son nom., Je ne me rappelle pas son nom.Ĭan you remember what she said? → Vous souvenez-vous de ce qu'elle a dit?, Vous rappelez-vous ce qu'elle a dit? It was a night to remember → fue una noche memorable or inolvidable She will be remembered for her wonderful sense of humour → se la recordará por su maravilloso sentido del humor So I gave him sth to remember me by ( fig) → así que le di algo para que no me olvidara or para que se acordara de mí ![]() Give me something to remember you by → dame algún recuerdo tuyo I remember him as tall and slim → lo recuerdo alto y delgado I don't remember what he looks like → no me acuerdo de or no recuerdo cómo es I seem to remember (that) you used to do the same → si mal no recuerdo, tú hacías lo mismo I remember seeing it I remember having seen it → me acuerdo de or recuerdo haberlo visto, me acuerdo de or recuerdo que lo vi I don't remember a thing about it → no recuerdo ni un solo detalle de ello I can never remember phone numbers → tengo muy mala memoria para los números de teléfono, soy incapaz de recordar números de teléfono (= recall) → acordarse de, recordarĭon't you remember me? → ¿no se acuerda usted de mí?, ¿no me recuerda? Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012 rememberġ. ![]()
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