Unfortunately, we now have lived with it forever, so don't think of it as actually being anything dynamic particularly. It's just a name.

不幸的是，我们现在得一直沿用这个名字了,所以别认为它指的是什么动态的东西,这只是个名字。

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It doesn't even make sense now, they're not used in spectroscopy anymore, but this is where the names originally came from and they did stick.

现在看它没什么道理，它们在光谱学里也不这么用了，但这些名字,从这里面起源后来就一直沿用下来了。

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And, he kept referring to them as corpuscles.

他一直沿用微粒这个概念。

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