This worldview had, of course, an obsession with stability.

这个世界观太执着于稳定性

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There are some exceptions, which we'll get to later, but the only a big exception here is with hydrogen, which has a special stability that's associated with two electrons.

但也有一些例外我们将以后再讲，但这里只有一个较大的例外，氢，它的稳定性比较特殊，只需要两个电子。

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We started with this hypothesis of octet stability and I'm talking about properties of ionic crystals.

我们从八隅律的稳定性假设开始,我们讨论到了离子晶体的性质。

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