And we can actually better visualize this if we plot how that energy changes as a function of internuclear distance.

而我们就能更清楚地看到这些，如果我们画出,能量随核间距的变化曲线。

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So, when we think about a bond length, this is going to be the length of our bond here, that makes sense because it's going to want to be at that distance that minimizes the energy.

因此，当我们考虑一个键的长度的时候，这就应该是我们的键长，这是合理的,因为体系会在核间距达到这一距离时,能量到达最小值。

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So, if we look at this graph where what we're charting is the internuclear distance, so the distance between these two hydrogen atoms, as a function of energy, -- what we are going to see is a curve that looks like this -- this is the general curve that you'll see for any covalent bond, and we'll explain where that comes from in a minute.

因此，如果我们来看一看这幅曲线图,这里我们画的横坐标是核间距，也就是这两个氢原子之间的距离，纵坐标是能量，我们看到的这是能量关于核间距的曲线-,这是一条普遍的曲线，在研究任何共价键时你都会遇到，我们马上就会解释一下它是怎么来的。

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When we're talking about r for internuclear distance, we're talking about the distance between two different nuclei in a bond, in a covalent bond.

当我们说，r，代表的是核间距的时候，我们讨论的是一个距离,在一个键--一个共价键的两端的原子核之间的距离。

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And when I say internuclear distance, we actually call this r here.

而当我说核间距的时候这里，我们其实还是用，r，来表示它。

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