So in order to fill them, he would have to have eight electrons or an octet around the cubes.

因此为了填满它们，他必须放上八个电子或者说一个“八隅体“,在立方体周围。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

So, basically what he's showing in these cubes is that there are eight spaces that need to be filled up to have a full cube.

因此，基本上他在这里展示是这些立方体中一共有,八个位置，需要把它们都填满才得到一个完整的立方体。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And conceptually, the idea of cubing a value feels like you could package that up into a little box, a little tool that takes input, a value, and returns output the answer A* so you don't have to constantly do A star, A*A So this program ,at the end of today, is pretty much the same thing.

概念上，算一个值的立方就像是,你可以把一个值打包放在一个小盒子里,一个用来接收输入的工具,一个值，然后返回一个答案,所以你并不需要一直使用，等等。，A，star，，A，，and，so，forth。,这个程序，最后，是一个差不多的东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选