So these devices, when I was a youngster, were colloquially known as "atom smashers", because they have the capacity to actually break these and have them reform.

这些设备，当我还年轻的时候，它们在口语中被叫做核粒子加速器，因为它们有能力,将这些破碎并重新形成。

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That's amazing, you can get atoms to smash atoms and create a chain reaction and create power-- that's a pretty amazing invention.

很惊人，你可以利用原子去做加速粒子,并产生连锁反应，然后创造能量-,那是个十分惊人的发明。

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