单词 | memory hole |
释义 | memory holenoun An imaginary place where inconvenient or unpleasant information is put and quickly forgotten: now that the trial’s been postponed the whole case has dropped into the memory hole...
OriginFrom George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which described a slot where historical documents could be disposed of to allow for manipulation of memories of the past. |
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