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Scientists have built the ‘world’s smallest violin’
科學傢們制造出瞭 “世界上最小的小提琴”
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Here it is. The world’s smallest violin, on this chip.
它在這裡。這是世界上最小的小提琴，就在這塊芯片上。
Scientists at Loughborough University believe they have created the world’s smallest violin using nanotechnology.
拉夫堡大學的科學傢們認為他們用納米技術制造出瞭世界上最小的小提琴。
The violin is smaller than a human hair which is typically between 17 and 180 microns in diameter.
這把小提琴比人類的一根頭發絲還要細，頭發絲的直徑通常在 17 到 180 微米之間。
It was produced to test the university’s new nanolithography system to build and study tiny structures.
制造出這把小提琴是為瞭測試該大學用於構建和研究微小結構的新型納米光刻系統。
So, how do they do this?
那麼，他們是怎麼做出這把小提琴的呢？
We do that by getting a very atomically small, what you could think of as a needle.
我們通過一個原子級別的微小物體來實現這個想法，你可以把它想象成一根針。
We heat it up, and we then drag it through this polymer-layer that we put on, so that we can write in a particular what we would call a ‘pattern’.
我們將其加熱，然後在我們鋪設的聚合物層上拖拽它，從而能夠以特定的方式刻寫出所謂的 “圖案”。
Now, the violin is just a microscopic image rather than a playable instrument.
現在，這把小提琴隻是一個微觀圖像，而不是一件可以用來演奏的樂器。
Why did these scientists make it?
為什麼這些科學傢們制作瞭這樣的一把小提琴呢？
To be fair, it’s a violin you cannot play.
實話說，這是一把不能彈奏的小提琴。
It’s very tiny, so you couldn’t kind of pick on the strings, but we thought it was a very good example to try out how far we can push our new system.
它太小瞭，所以你不能撥動它的琴弦，但是我們認為這是一個非常好的例子，因為可以用它來測試我們新系統所能做到的極限。
Building the world’s smallest violin may all seem like fun and games, but a lot of what we’ve learned in this process has essentially laid the groundwork for the research that’s going to be implemented here.
制造世界上最小的小提琴看上去可能是一件輕松好玩的事情，但其實我們從這個過程中學到的許多東西基本上都為即將在這裡展開的研究奠定瞭基礎。
So, making one tiny violin can help these resea rchers find new ways to use nanotechnology in mobile phones and computers.
因此，制作一把微小的小提琴能夠幫助這些研究人員找到在手機和電腦中應用納米科技的新方法。
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