Basically what he did is he took a very thin metal foil and he bombarded it with charged particles.
简单的说他做的工作是,用一张非常薄的金属箔,然后用带电的粒子轰击它。
We've known since antiquity that you could take gold, and you can hammer to very, very thin foil.
我们已经知道很久以前,人们就能用锤子把金敲成非常非常薄的箔片。
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