So, this makes this chart shown in pink make a lot more sense, because if we're way out at very far distances, essentially what we have here is we're talking about two separate atoms.

因此综合考虑这些因素可以发现这条粉红色曲线很合理，因为如果我们离得非常远，本质上来说,我们讨论的就是两个分开的原子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And you can think about that if you think about a standing wave, for example, where you can have amplitude at many different values of x, so an amplitude at many different distances, but you also have areas where there is a amplitude.

你们可以想象一下驻波，在不同ｘ处,可以有不同的振幅，在不同的距离有不同的振幅，但在某些地方振幅等于０．

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

The topic for this week is cell communication: how mechanisms that cells within a complex organism use to communicate with each other at short distances or long distances.

本周的主题是细胞通讯,即在一个复杂机体中的细胞,采用何种交流机制,在或长或短的距离中相互联系

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Here are humans who had to walk long distances potentially to find the food, kill the food at great risk to themselves; inspiring a cascade of physiological effects that have to do with fear and arousal and things like that, not to mention all the calories one would burn doing this kind of activity.

这些人可能需要走很远的路,去寻找食物,冒着巨大危险,杀死猎物,人们耗费能量以激活一系列生理效应,用以战胜恐惧,引发斗志,更不用说人们在狩猎的过程中,消耗的卡路里量了

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