However, in an interview, Ms. Meyers's mother, Harriet Meyers, said she had come to appreciate the contraption.

然而，在问到迈耶斯女士的母亲，哈丽特·迈耶斯时，她说她已经开始喜欢这玩意儿了。

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He did it with a high tech marvel called a blink comparator; he put two photographs of the same patch of sky taken on different nights into the contraption and flipped back and forth between them.

而这还多亏了一件叫做闪烁对比仪的高科技法宝；他把两张在不同夜晚拍摄的天空中同一位置的照片放在这个仪器里，然后快速地来回浏览。

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Bin managed to design and build the contraption, which USES a rotor for lift and a propeller for thrust, then teach himself how to fly it after checking the Internet for guidance.

徐斌先设计并造出一台使用转子提供升力，螺旋桨提供推力的装置，然后他查询因特网上的指南，教会了自己如何驾驶它。

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The metal contraption built by two teenagers caught and threw a ball.

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So, not only did Professor Sayer, who's in the Chemistry Department who put together this contraption for all of you, not only did she magnify the size of these gold nuclei, but she actually had to smoosh all of these atoms closer together then they normally would be.

化学系的Sayer教授把这些玩意放到一起，她不仅把金原子核的,尺寸放大了,还把原子核的间距压缩了,事实上，如果原子核的尺寸有这么大,我们需要另一个大教室，放这个原子核。

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This time, there was no malfunction, but the contraption did nothing to help the drama.

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Probably because they weren't cushions at all but sandbags to stop the contraption taking off.

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Check out our hands on with the contraption or head past the break for Kotkin's video pitch.

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