He laid his arms upon the table's edge and dropped his face into them, tearless and very sleepy.

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And, if you laid this out in a table, as Mendeleev did with his cards, you would find that the local maxima all occur roughly in the same horizontal position from the end points of the rows.

如果你们这些放到一张表格上去，像是门捷列夫用纸牌做的那样，你会发现局部的最高点,会出现在同一个水平高度,从这些行的最后一点。

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