More than 200,000 people died in the 2004 tsunami, the vast majority of them in Aceh.

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This is what people are being told they should eat, but in fact, the vast majority of Americans do not meet dietary recommendations.

这就是人们被告知应有的饮食,而事实上,绝大多数美国人不能达到推荐食谱的要求

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The vast overwhelming majority of people needed to farm land, in order to stay alive.

当时古希腊拥有众多的人口,人们需要农田才能生存

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A handful of people would, the vast majority would turn.

只有少数人选择往前开，绝大多数都选择转弯。

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And, to be sure, there were lots of crowds in Paris were the inevitable crowds who shouted for war, which was sort of odd because Paris was increasingly a leftwing city, because the vast majority of the population of Paris were ordinary people,were workers, more about that another time when I talk about Paris.

很多巴黎民众涌上街头,个个嚷着要上战场,而这对巴黎这座逐渐左倾的城市有些令人惊奇,因为这座城市的多数人,都是平民和工人,关于这点我会在讲到巴黎时再和大家讨论

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