"Okay. He told me he finished eating, paid the bill and left,"

"他告诉我他吃完饭然后付账离开了"
because paying the bill is what you do in a restaurant.

因为付账是你在餐馆里必须要做的事
This is benign enough.

这都是理所当然的
You fill in the blanks.

你会自行填补空白
You also can integrate suppositions made by others.

你还可能把记忆与他人的臆想掺杂
And the clearest case of this is eyewitness testimony.

最能体现这点的便是目击证人的证词
And the best research on this

这方面最好的研究
has been done by Elizabeth Loftus

是由伊丽莎白·洛夫特斯进行的
who has done a series of studies,

她做了一系列实验
some discussed in the textbook,

在教材中也有所讨论
showing how people's memories can be swayed

这些实验说明了记忆是如何被引导性问题
by leading questions.

所改变的