Someone began distributing free cigarettes, which caused a crowd to gather, said a police source.

警方知情人士说，有人开始分发免费香烟，这使得人群拥挤聚集。

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But at dawn, as he and many thousand supporters prepared to gather at a city park, plain-clothes policemen arrested him and, struggling to get through a dense crowd, took him away.

但是就在黎明，就在他准备和成千上万的支持者在城市公园碰面时，便衣警察逮捕了他并艰难地穿过拥挤的人群将其带走。

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So only a small crowd, say, a grade school class taking a field-trip to the park, would have to gather around that bench before it became more likely than not that two people shared a birthday.

所以当一小群人——比方说在公园游玩的小学的一个班——聚集在长椅周围时，很可能就有两个人生日相同。

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