The other thing I have down is population, although the population of the U.S. has been pretty steady -that pink line looks awfully steady -and I have interest rates.

我还做了另外一个数据,就是人口数,而美国的人口数量一直都很平稳,粉色的那条线看起来非常平稳,我还做了利率的数据

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You've got people from the outskirts coming in for food and safety; but, the population is slightly over two million people, and that's a lot of mouths to feed.

人们从郊区前往城市寻求食物和庇护,然而人口数量很快突破了二百万,人人都在等米下锅

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

One answer, and it's the one that is most widely believed among Greek scholars, is that the growth of population that we have mentioned in connection with the rise of the polis is still working once the polis comes into form.

原因之一是,这个原因是被广大古希腊学者们所接受的,那就是,人口的增长与城邦的数量,在城邦兴起的阶段还是基本一致的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Agricultural villages will have existed all over the place in the late Stone Age, in the Neolithic Period, as it is known. But there is a difference and the critical difference is that a city contains a number of people who do not provide for their own support.

农业村庄在石器时代后期,以及新石器时代随处可见,但二者是有区别的,最重要的区别在于,城市能容纳,相当数量,无需自给自足的人口

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选