在19世纪30年代晚期美国麻省的波士顿，报纸编辑们喜欢创造一些有趣的缩写词，比如“WOOOFC”是“with one of our first citizens”的缩写，而OW是“all right”的缩写。

So it was in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in the late 1830s, when newspaper editors enjoyed inventing fanciful abbreviations, like "WOOOFC" for "with one of our first citizens" and OW for "all right".

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为此，麻省理工学院的陈刚和波士顿大学的任志峰在《自然-材料》杂志上刊登的一篇论文中提出了另一种方式。

Gang Chen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Zhifeng Ren of Boston College therefore propose, in a paper in Nature Materials, an alternative.

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Michael de la Maza在做有趣的调查，一位来自波士顿的敏捷教练和培训师，他从麻省理工学院获得了不止一个博士学位。

One man who is doing interesting research is Michael de la Maza, an agile coach and trainer from Boston with more than a PhD from MIT.

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