Last year, four Japanese researchers won the physics prize for their work measuring the friction that occurs when someone steps on a banana peel.

去年，四名日本研究人员测量了人踩到香蕉皮后的摩擦力，获得了物理学奖。

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Comparing the Chinese and Japanese economies historically, in my own lifetime a banana was seen as a luxury item in Tokyo as late as the early 1960s, and my Japanese relatives did not purchase cars until the late 1960s (when they were in their early 40s).

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