OK, clearly we'd be much better off if we had some systematic quantitative way to tell whether something would happen spontaneously.

好，如果我们有一些系统定量的方法来判断,一个过程是否会自发进行,那就会更好了。

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OK, so what we've gone through today is we've introduced covalent bonding, and we've figured out a way to quantify it.

好的，那么我们已经经历了,是我们已经介绍了共价键，我们已经想出了一种定量的方法来。

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