One day, physicist Ho-Kei Chan of Trinity College Dublin was playing with steel ball bearings, trying to pack them into a little cylindrical tube in the most efficient way possible.

一天，都柏林大学圣三一学院的物理学家陈和奎正拿着一些铁珠玩耍，试图将他们以最有效的方法装进一个小的圆柱型管子里。

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'Think of it like a good perfume, which can last all day and changes in quality when you wear it,' says Ms. Ho.

Ho女士说，你不妨把它想成一种上乘的香水，洒上之后可以保持一天，其间香气还会不停变换。

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“Since the day I started racing, Formula One has always been my objective”, said Ho-Pin Tung.

“从我参加比赛的那一天起，F1一直是我的目标”，董荷斌说。

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