Yet, when they did the census of 1872 in Paris alone there were 10,000 less shoemakers than there had been before.

然而,一八七二年仅仅巴黎的人口普查,就少了一万名鞋匠

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The first accurate census, I think, is in Copenhagen at the end of the eighteenth century.

我认为,第一次精确的人口普查,是在十八世纪末的哥本哈根

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Most censuses were taken, by the way, as a way of counting heads, the number of people who had to be fed at the time of a siege.

顺便提一下,大多数人口普查,都采用数人头的方法,即在围城期间统计需要给养多少人口

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Also, we don't have accurate censuses until the 19th century.

况且,直到十九世纪我们才有了,精确的人口普查

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