One major difference between electron affinity and ionization energy is that when we talked about ionization energy, remember ionization energy always has to be positive.

电子亲和能,与电离能之间最大的不同就在于,当我们提到电离能的时候，记得电离能总是正的。

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This should make sense, because if an atom has a very high electron affinity, that means it's really happy taking an electron from another atom, or taking a free electron -- that that's very favorable.

这应该是合理的，因为如果一个原子有很高的电子亲和能，这意味着,它非常乐意从另外一个原子那里夺取一个电子，或者得到一个自由电子--这是非常利于发生的。

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So this means nitrogen has low electron affinity, it doesn't actually want to gain an electron.

这意味着氮的电子亲和能很低，它实际上并不愿意得到一个电子。

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So it's the affinity it has for electrons, it's how much it likes to get an electron.

因此，它表示的是对电子的亲和力，即有多么希望得到一个电子。

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