"The neighborhood were recruited from is adjacent to an interstate.

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So it's just a measure of how much does one given atom want to pull away electron density from, let's say, an adjacent atom.

因此，它就是度量一个给定原子有多么,想把电子密度拉过来，可以说，从相邻的一个原子那里。

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It's this tube-like structure, which is made of many, many epithelial cells all directly adjacent to each other, is what separates the outside world from our internal bodies.

这些管状结构,也是由许许多多上皮细胞,互相连接而成的,它使体内和体外,区分开来

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