He anticipated this power much as his father, a reasonably well-to-do banker, might have anticipated long-term earnings from a particularly risky business venture.

他预测到他的力量，正如他的父亲，一个相当富有的银行家，能够预测到从一笔风险高的生意中,能获得多少长期利益一样。

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All right, so we can now see a little bit of what the power of molecular orbital theory is in predicting what kind of bonds we're going to see in molecules, or whether or not we'll see this bonding occur at all.

好了，我们已经可以看到一点,分子轨道理论在预测分子中,所成的键或者分子，能不能成键方面的能力了。

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All right now, now what I'd like you to do is just sort of do a guestimate in your mind of the percentage errors you might have made overall in these estimates, and I'll come back and ask you in a minute.

好了,现在,现在我希望你们,在脑海中估算下你们预测的百分误差,你们可以就总值做一个估算,我会在一分钟后问你们

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We would predict to see a single bond between lithium, and it turns out that's what we see.

我们可以预测在锂中会看到一个单键，而实际上确实是这样的。

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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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So we would not predict to see a b e 2 bond.

我们预测不会在Be2中看到键。

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You wouldn't be expected to be able to guess that this would happen, because using any kind of simple theory, we would, in fact, predict that this would not be the case, but what we find experimentally is that it's more stable to have half filled d orbital than to have a 4 s 2, and a 3 d 4.

你们不用预期有能力,猜出这个会发生，因为使用任一种简单的理论，我们事实上可以预测不会是那种情况，但是我们在实验中发现的,是半填充d轨道比,4s23d4更加稳定。

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