乘法口诀

He didn´t know his eleven-times table.

他不知道11的乘法口诀。

Students even do not have to remember the multiplication table.

他们在学乘法时，居然也不让学生背“乘法口诀表”。

I didn´t know my times tables but I could milk a goat and ride a horse.

我不知道乘法口诀表，但我知道如何给山羊挤奶和骑马。

Usually it is the children, not the parents, who are loath to spend their evenings practising spelling and learning times tables.

通常情况下，不愿花费晚上的时间练习拼写，学习乘法口诀的是孩子，不是家长。

Back then, I thought memory was a deliberate, cognitive process, like remembering multiplication tables or lyrics or where the keys were.

那时，我认为记忆是一个需要细心思量的认知过程，就像记住乘法口诀表、歌词，或者钥匙放在什么地方那样。