The students were also asked to choose five words they might use to describe another object: a table.

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You are allowed to use on the test the official version of the Periodic Table of the Elements which most of you should have by now.

在测试中你们可以使用,化学元素周期表的官方版本,你们应该大部分都有了吧。

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Depending on what kind of chemistry you go in to, you might accidentally memorize parts of the table, which is fine, but what you really want to know how to do is know how to use the periodic table.

取决于你今后从事哪个方向的化学研究，你可能会不经意地记住周期表的某一部分，这就够了，但是要注意,你真正需要知道的是如何使用元素周期表。

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I think that if Ford and other car companies didn't use cost-benefit analysis, they'd eventually go out of business because they wouldn't be able to be profitable and millions of people wouldn't be able to use their cars to get to jobs, to put food on the table, to feed their children.

我觉得要是福特和其他汽车公司,不使用成本效益分析的话，他们最后就会倒闭,因为他们无法盈利,这样就会有数百万人无法开车上班，没法赚钱，养不起小孩。

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And what we can do is we can also use the Schrodinger equation to make these accurate predictions for any other atom that we want to talk about in the periodic table.

我们能做的是,我们可以使用,薛定谔方程去做一些,关于我们想要讨论的元素周期表,中任何一个原子的预测。

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