He said his plan would balance the need for energy with the need to protect natural resources.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

There's a balance here between ordinary energy or enthalpy and entropy.

通常所说的能量,或者自由焓和熵之间存在一个平衡。

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So the point is, this balance between energy thatyou could think of as say bond energies in chemical reactions, and entropy that you can think of in terms of disorder, how many different possible combinations or configurations of something wrong, will dictate where the equilibrium lies.

关键在于，这种能量与熵之间的平衡,确定了平衡的条件，在化学中能量涉及键能，而熵和无序有关,即有多少可能的不同组合或者形位，二者的平衡会告诉我们平衡态是什么样子。

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