It's a nice table! The only problem is (that) it's too big for our room.

这张桌子的确不错！唯一的问题是放在我们的屋子里太大了。

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"But I think,as Americans look up today, what they see is a big government takeover of health care that is on the table and a plan that,frankly, they do not support,".

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We know that ionization energy is going to increase as we go across the periodic table, so that means carbon has a lower ionization energy than nitrogen which is right next to us.

我们知道电离能会随着周期表,向右而逐渐变大，因此碳的电离能比旁边的氮要低一些,那么就像我说的。

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And what we've been talking about with all of these properties are, of course, how can we figure out what that is for a certain atom by looking at the periodic table, so we want to think about the periodic trend for atomic radius.

对于我们讲过的这些性质，我们所讨论的一直都是,当然是，我们如何能够判断某一个原子的这些性质,通过观察周期表，因此我们需要思考一下原子半径的周期性规律。

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