But I was working on research involving detection of worms, viruses and the spread thereof.

但我从事的研究涉及到蠕虫的检测，病毒及其传播。

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And what we did was he put two detection plates on either side of these cathode rays, and when he put a voltage difference between these two plates, he wanted to see if he could actually bend the rays and test if they're actually charged or not.

但没有实验证明这件事,这就是Thomson所做的，它在阴极射线旁边放两块探测板,他想通过看当他,在两板之间加上电压后,阴极射线是不是会。

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