if we think about electronegativity as a periodic trend we can just draw our nice periodic table here, and let's separate it into quadrants.

如果我们来思考一下电负性的周期性规律,我们可以把我们漂亮的周期表画在这，然后把它分成四个象限。

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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。

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In other words, what we probably have here are two older separate, springtime rituals.

换句话说，我们也许有两种,更古老的，分割的春天祭祀仪式。

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