They're not interacting at all so that's why the energy is the same as that for two individual atoms, that's what we're dealing with. As we get closer together, we start get lower and lower in energy.

它们之间没有任何相互作用，因此,体系的能量就等于两个分开的原子的能量，这就是我们要处理的，而随着我们的距离越来越近，我们的能量开始变得越来越低。

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