For example, if you accidentally touch a hot stove, the nerves in your skin shoot a message of pain to your brain. The brain then sends a message back telling the muscles in your hand to pull away.

比如你不小心碰到了热火炉，你皮肤中的神经就会向大脑发射疼痛信号，于是大脑就会发回信号让手挪开。

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They were so deeply absorbed in watching the show on television that they found it hard to pull away.

他们聚精会神地看着电视里的表演，舍不得离开。

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If you've been hurt, your instinct is probably to pull away and protect yourself. But if you do this, the friendship will likely die.

一旦受到伤害，你本能的反应可能就是马上离开以保护自己，如果这样做的话，你们的友谊可能就随之结束了。

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So it's just a measure of how much does one given atom want to pull away electron density from, let's say, an adjacent atom.

因此，它就是度量一个给定原子有多么,想把电子密度拉过来，可以说，从相邻的一个原子那里。

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So you can think about how these 2 things combined are going to be electronegativity, which is a measure of how much an atom wants to pull electron density away from another atom.

因此你可以想象出,这两样性质合起来就是电负性，也就是一个度量，关于一个原子,有多希望把另一个原子的电子密度拉过来的。

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