And we can actually better visualize this if we plot how that energy changes as a function of internuclear distance.

而我们就能更清楚地看到这些，如果我们画出,能量随核间距的变化曲线。

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So, if we look at this graph where what we're charting is the internuclear distance, so the distance between these two hydrogen atoms, as a function of energy, -- what we are going to see is a curve that looks like this -- this is the general curve that you'll see for any covalent bond, and we'll explain where that comes from in a minute.

因此，如果我们来看一看这幅曲线图,这里我们画的横坐标是核间距，也就是这两个氢原子之间的距离，纵坐标是能量，我们看到的这是能量关于核间距的曲线-,这是一条普遍的曲线，在研究任何共价键时你都会遇到，我们马上就会解释一下它是怎么来的。

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When we're talking about r for internuclear distance, we're talking about the distance between two different nuclei in a bond, in a covalent bond.

当我们说，r，代表的是核间距的时候，我们讨论的是一个距离,在一个键--一个共价键的两端的原子核之间的距离。

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And when I say internuclear distance, we actually call this r here.

而当我说核间距的时候这里，我们其实还是用，r，来表示它。

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