That's an idea that struck people intuitively at various times in history, but they didn't know how to do these calculations.

在历史上,人们很多次,直觉地感知到了这一点,但是他们不知道怎么去计算

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This intuitively should make a lot of sense, because we know we're trying to minimize electron repulsions to keep things in as low an energy state as possible, so it makes sense that we would put one electron in each orbital first before we double up in any orbital.

这个直观上讲得通，因为我们知道尝试去最小化电子排斥力,从而尽可能的保持处于一个较低的能态,所以它讲得通,在我们在同一个轨道放入两个电子之前,我们首先把电子放入每一个轨道。

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