As I see it, the official function of this simile is to give us a sense of the size of Satan's shield and thereby to give us a sense of the size of Satan himself.

在我看来，这个比喻的正式的作用,是要给我们展现出撒旦的屏障的规模,因此来展现撒旦自身的伟岸。

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That should make sense to us, because when we talk about a wave function, we're talking about a probability divided by a volume, because we're talking about a probability density.

因为我们说，波函数,是概率，除以体积,因为我们说的是，概率密度，如果我们用它。

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And just as with variables, you should use some common sense, some style here, and the function's name should X Y communicate what it does, calling it X or Y or Z is generally not all that helpful.

就像变量，你使用一些常识，一些类型，和函数名需要,传达它所做的事情，把它叫做,或者Z通常是没有什么用处的。

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It makes sense to draw the wave function as a circle, because we do know that 1 s orbitals are spherically symmetric.

把波函数画成一个圆是有道理的，因为我们知道1s轨道是球对称的。

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