(n) amnesia about particular events that is very convenient for the person who cannot remember, Example:why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions?
(n) an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of serotonin so that more serotonin is available to act on receptors in the brain, Syn. SSRI
(n) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome, Syn. selective information, entropy, Example:the signal contained thousands of bits of information
[取其精华,去其糟粕 / 取其精華,去其糟粕, qǔ qí jīng huá, qù qí zāo pòㄑㄩˇ ㄑㄧˊ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄏㄨㄚˊ, ㄑㄩˋ ㄑㄧˊ ㄗㄠ ㄆㄛˋ] take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan); keep what is good, discard the rest; You need to be selective when studying.; In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas.