Linking new information to things that are easier to remember is a technique that many people use – it could be making letter patterns into words called mnemonics, or by sorting things into categories.

将新信息与更容易记住的事物联系起来是许多人使用的一种技术——它可以将字母模式制作成称为助记符的单词，或者将事物分类。

In the early 19th century, Austrian astronomer Joseph Johann von Littrow said we should communicate with space by making giant geometric patterns in the sands of the Sahara Desert, filling them with kerosene and lighting them on fire.

在 19 世纪早期，奥地利天文学家约瑟夫·约翰·冯·利特罗曾说，我们应该在撒哈拉沙漠的沙子上画出巨大的几何图案，用煤油填充图案并点火，从而与太空进行交流。

They went to see Danny Minsky and laughed themselves sick for one-and-tuppence, and if you asked him it was a better way of recovering from the day's work than making meaningless patterns in purple cross-stitch.

他们去看丹尼·明斯基 (Danny Minsky) 并为了一两便士而笑得恶心，如果你问他，这是一种从一天的工作中恢复过来的更好方法，而不是在紫色十字绣中制作毫无意义的图案。