And the reason that we use it is that it is incredibly accurate, and allows us to very, very quickly predict and to predict accurately, in most cases, what the electron configuration of molecules are going to be.

我们用它是因为它极为精确，并且能让我们非常非常快地预测,而且是准确地预测，大多数情况下，分子应该具有的电子排布。

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And resonance is the idea that sometimes one single Lewis structure does not adequately describe the electron configuration around a given molecule, so instead you need to draw two different Lewis structures to describe that more appropriately.

而所谓共振态,就是有时候一个路易斯结构不足以,完整描述一个给定分子的电子排布，因此这时你需要同时画出两个,不同的路易斯结构来描述它,这样会更恰当。

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N 2 So any chemist should be able to just look at n 2 and know that it's a triple bond, but that's not something that we've learned how did to do yet, so let's go ahead and start a new topic that's going to allow us to have some sort of sense of what the valence electron configuration, which includes whether something's a single or double or a triple bond can be figured out for any given molecule.

任何一个化学家都应该能够仅仅通过看到2,就知道它有一个三键,但是我们还没学习如何做到这点，因此下面我们就开始进入一个新的主题,它将使我们能够有一定的认识,对于价电子的排布情况，包括可以对任何一个给定分子中的键是单键双键,还是三键作出判断。

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So that means that we don't have to worry about things like wave functions when we're talking about Lewis structures, but because they're so simple to use and because they so often predict the electron configuration of molecules accurately, we end up using them all the time in chemistry, so it's very valuable to know how to draw them correctly and to know how to work with them.

因此这也就意味着我们在讨论路易斯结构的时候,不需要担心波函数之类的东西，但是由于路易斯结构不仅简单易用,而且用它来预测分子的电子排布,经常可以得到非常精确的结果，结果我们在化学中一直都在用它，因此知道如何正确地画出并运用,路易斯结构是非常有价值的。

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