so we're going to use this concept of the path to go from the initial point to the end point.

在处理状态函数时,路径的选取。

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As I keep moving down, that part gets smaller, it's not always the initial length of the list, and you're right. But if you do the sums, or if you want to think of it this way, if you think about this more generally, it's always on average at least the length of the list.

等等，随着移动，剩下的部分越来越小，并不是初始那么长了，如果你算一算，或者你这么想，你考虑更一般的情况，平均下来至少是列表的长度。

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now we're dealing with a lot of different atoms in the molecule, much more complicated than the initial case of the cyanide ion where we only had two.

现在我们要面对的分子中有很多不同的原子，比我们一开始只有两个,原子的氰离子复杂多了。

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