With this call for a truce in the interminable controversy of formula versus formula, Ma Chin sorted through the papers she had just been working on, picked up one of them and began reading out the programme she had jotted down.

• 玛金也撇开了那无断头的“公式”对“公式”的辩论，就从她刚才写着的那些纸中间翻出一张来，读着那上面记下了的预定节目。