Not necessarily,say analysts. John Tirman, executive director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says being a Nobel laureate is of only marginal benefit at the negotiating table.

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It's really as if the game is being played where the only choices available on the table are 1 through 67.

就如同这游戏的可选项只有,1到67之间的数字了

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So similarly, as we now move up only one more atom in the table, 3 so to an atomic number of three or lithium, now we're going from six variables all the way to nine variables.

类似地就像我们现在,移动到周期表中仅仅多一个电子的情况，移动到一个原子数为，或者锂元素,现在我们从6个变量到了9个变量。

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The only thing that's different is that they're one down on the periodic table, potassium is down one row, so it's going to be a little bigger, but when we're thinking about size, it maybe does not seem that significant to talk about the size.

它们唯一的不同点,就在于其中一个在周期表的下面，钾在下一行，因此它要稍微大一些，但是当我们考虑尺寸的时候，似乎讨论尺寸的意义不大。

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