"Our fields of specialty were quite a bit different," Yuan says. "When we went abroad for symposiums, we'd usually each go our own way." One might be in Western Europe and one in the Soviet Union, and there wouldn't be much time for them to meet.
「我們學的領域不大相同，出國開會經常各走各的」，袁家騮說，常常是一人到歐洲，一人到蘇聯，不太碰得到頭。