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。

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.

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“任何时候任何事情都会出差错，但幸运的是这个早晨事情进行的很顺利。”欧洲核研究组织的里恩·埃文斯(Lyn Evans)俯瞰着整幢加速器建筑，说道。

"Things can go wrong at any time, but luckily this morning everything went smoothly," said Lyn Evans of CERN, who oversaw the building of the accelerator.

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而加速器可能产生核聚变，将原子核融合在一起。

But accelerators could potentially produce nuclear fusion, which fuses atomic nuclei together.

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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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