We are expecting to see that it decreases because it's feeling a stronger pull, all the electrons are being pulled in closer to the nucleus, so that atomic size is going to get smaller.

我们将看到它是减小的,因为电子会感受到越来越强的吸引力，所有的电子将会被原子核拉得越来越近，所以原子半径将越来越小。

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Now, not all Mycenaean sites are so far from the sea; some of them are closer, but what it's important to say is that none of them are right on the sea.

不是所有迈锡尼文明遗址都离海这样远,有些距海近些,但重点是,它们没有一个在海边

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And the commune, despite the fact that there's lots of-- you could hear in the distance the guns sometimes getting closer and closer, and attempts to break out fail miserably, they pass all sorts of impressive social legislation.

在公社里,尽管有很多...,公社不远处不时能听到枪声,不断逼近,而突围的尝试又屡次惨败,他们还通过了各式法律法规

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"That led to the idea that one could give most or all of the radiation closer to the original tumor bed and that would solve the problem, " says George Sledge, a past president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and co-director of the breast-cancer program at Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, in Indianapolis.

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Notwithstanding the 911's advantage in maximum speed, teased out on the autobahnen and only rarely then, these cars are close and getting closer all the time.

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The Near Earth Object (NEO) database is working to do that, but it is very difficult to locate all of the objects either closer to the sun or behind it.

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