作为一个美国人，你如何看待美国是世界上人口第三多的国家这件事？
How do you feel that your country is the third most populous country in the world?
译文简介
老实说，就人口而言，与其他国家相比，美国确实是一个巨人。
正文翻译
How do you feel that your country is the third most populous country in the world?
作为一个美国人，你如何看待美国是世界上人口第三多的国家这件事？
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What do you guys think about this?
老实说，就人口而言，与其他国家相比，美国确实是一个巨人。人们很容易忘记美国是世界第三大人口大国。它仅次于印度和中国，因为后者的人口各有 10 亿。
你们怎么看这件事？
Washington
It’s less that I feel like I live in a giant country and more that most other countries seem bizarrely small.
与其说我觉得自己生活在一个巨大的国家，不如说大多数其他国家似乎小得离奇。
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Wisconsin
yes, like it's hard for me to wrap my head around a country where the weather and nature is even somewhat similar throughout. or a country where driving a couple hundred miles from home means you're leaving your country. or a country where you don't necessarily fly on a plane to get to the other side of it. that would be so different.
是的，我很难想象生活在一个全国兜一圈天气和自然环境都大差不差的地方。或者一个离开家几百英里就意味着你要离开自己的国家/地区的地方。或你不一定要乘坐飞机才能到达国家的另一边的地方。感觉太不一样了。
Alabama
I remember being shocked to learn that all of the UK is in the same time zone.
我还记得当初得知整个英国都处于同一时区时的震惊。
Michigan:Grand Rapids
And it's only the size of Michigan
而且它只有密歇根那么大
Michigan
Which has counties in two time zones.
而且这是一个有两个时区的州。
Arizona
All of China is in a single time zone. So, depends on the government, really.
全中国也都在同一个时区。所以，这真的取决于政府。
Columbus, OH / Rochester NY
To be fair, about 90% of the Chinese population live in the eastern half of the country.
公平地说，大约 90% 的中国人口居住在该国的东半部。
Texas
This means that there's a 3.5-hour time difference across the China-Afghanistan border. Though, given how difficult it is to cross the border, this probably isn't a practical concern for many people.
这意味着中阿边境有3.5小时的时差。不过，考虑到越过边境有多困难，这对很多人来说可能不是一个实际的问题。
United Kingdom
There are very few countries that have multiple time zones.
拥有多个时区的国家其实很少。
Massachusetts
You can drive from Galway, on the West Coast of Ireland, to Dublin on the East in about 2 hours.
你可以从爱尔兰西海岸的戈尔韦驱车前往东部的都柏林，车程约 2 小时。
California-State of Jefferson
I drive 1 1/2 hours one way to go "big" grocery shopping ...3 hours (at least) total driving time. Usually once every other month for supplies and groceries to last for the whole month or longer.....with local shopping for fresh veggies and other perishable.
People in Europe don't grasp the size of the US It takes us longer than 2 hours to try to drive across the County that we live in. Longer than driving across some countries..
Even if we have the 3rd largest population....our country has some very sparsely populated areas (Nevada...looking at you!), so unless you go to a big city area...it doesn't feel "populated". The large section of the County that we live in averages about 7 people per square mile. I like it this way.
我需要单程开1个半小时车去买"大件"杂货......总驾驶时间3小时（至少）。通常每隔一个月买一次日用品和杂货，以维持整个月或更长的时间.....新鲜蔬菜和其他易腐物品则在本地购买。
欧洲人不了解美国的大小，我们试图开车穿过我们居住的县需要2个多小时。比开车穿越一些国家还要久。
即使我们有第三大人口....我们的国家也有一些人口非常稀少的地区（内华达州......看着你！），所以除非你去一个大城市地区......否则感受不到"人口众多"的感觉。我们所居住的县的大部分地区平均每平方英里有7个人。我喜欢这样。
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i live in the third biggest (as in population) city in america. with minimal traffic, driving from one end of the city to the very opposite end… would still take at least 45min to an hour… for just my CITY! damn.
我住在美国第三大（人口）城市。在交通最不拥挤的情况下，从城市的一端开车到另一端……仍然需要至少 45 分钟到一个小时……就我的“城市”地区而言！操蛋。
South Carolina
The first and only time I did it, it took me nearly four hours to cross Atlanta at rush hour lmao.. never again
我第一次也是唯一一次这样做是花了将近四个小时在高峰时间穿过亚特兰大，哈哈哈...之后再也没有尝试过了
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New England
It is more than two hours to drive from Boston to Pittsfield in no traffic.
在不堵车的情况下，从波士顿开车到匹兹菲尔德需要两个多小时。
I distinctly remember in fourth grade we were looking at maps of the world to find “where your ancestors came from” and finding (East) Germany and thinking “that can’t be right. This is really small.” I knew the US is large - we did a lot of road trips when I was a kid. I just assumed- wrongly- that other countries in Europe were just as big as the US. It weirded me out and it felt like the world shrank.
我清楚地记得，四年级时，我们在看世界地图，寻找"你的祖先来自哪里"，找到了（东）德国，然后想"这不可能。这里太小了。" 我知道美国很大--我还是个孩子的时候我们有过很多次公路旅行。我只是错误地认为，欧洲的其他国家也和美国一样大。这让我很奇怪，感觉世界缩小了。
New York
We don’t even fly “a” plane to get the other side. Most times we have to fly 2 or even 3
我们甚至不能一次性飞到另一边。大多数时候我们必须中转两甚至三次
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Virginia
Not only similar weather throughout the country, but in many places the weather isn't all that different year round, whether it's hot, cool, or in between.
Growing up where it's often below 20° as a high in the winter and above 90° in the summer, that ones hard for me to relate to.
有些国家不仅全国各地的天气相似，而且许多地方的天气全年都没有什么不同，无论是炎热、凉爽还是介于两者之间。
在我长大的地方，冬天的最高气温经常低于20°华氏度，夏天则高于90°华氏度，这让我很难体会到那种地方的感觉。
Exactly. I loved for a short period of time in a country that is half the size of the county I grew up in. Crazy!
没错。我在一个只有我长大的县城一半大的国家里短暂地逗留过。感觉很疯狂！
very much this. I am from the western US where this is exacerbated a bit; a couple hundred miles and you might have not even left your state let alone the US. i think 8-9 states in the US would be in the top 100 largest countries by themselves!
深有同感。我来自美国西部，那里情况更加严重；几百英里，你甚至可能还没有离开你的州，更不用说美国了。我认为美国有 8-9 个州可以单独进入前 100 大国家！
California
It's even hard for me to wrap my head around states like that. Like you live in one state and work in another?
我甚至很难理解这样的状态。比如你住在一个州而在另一个州工作？
United States of America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
Of the top 30 metro areas, 10 straddle state borders, including the two largest. So it’s very common to work in one state and live in another.
I know California has those border checkpoints but that is absolutely batshit insane to the rest of the country. I’m surprised it’s considered Constitutional.
To us, crossing state borders is like crossing county lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
在排名前30的都市区中，有10个横跨州界，包括两个最大的州。因此，在一个州工作，在另一个州生活是很常见的。
我知道加州有边境检查站，但这对美国其他地区来说绝对是疯狂的。我甚至很惊讶这被认为是符合宪法的。
对我们来说，跨越州界就像跨越县界。
California
Every time I've crossed into Nevada, the border checkpoints aren't even staffed. And it's just the sheer size of California versus a small state like New Jersey or Connecticut that blows my mind
每次我进入内华达州时，边境检查站甚至都没有工作人员。加利福尼亚州与新泽西州或康涅狄格州这样的小州相比，其规模之大令我震惊。
TX FL OH VA NC CA IN
England is about the size of Alabama. Really drove it home when I heard the average premier league club travels something like 6500 miles per year while the average MLS club travels over 60,000 miles per year.
英格兰的面积与阿拉巴马州差不多。当我听说英超俱乐部平均每年行驶 6500 英里，而美国职业足球大联盟俱乐部平均每年行驶超过 60,000 英里时，我服了。
Charlotte NC/Richmond VA
It's really funny when Brits talk about how the people in the next town over are all inbred idiots or what not and the next town over is like a 5 minute drive lol
当英国人咒骂隔壁城镇的人都是近亲繁殖的白痴或之类的东西的时候，这个城镇离他们其实才十五分钟的车程，这真的很有趣，哈哈
Massachusetts
I think this is the dominant thing for me. Also, as a consequence, while we all identify as Americans, we also have a strong identity with our state of residence. It's very common that we will introduce ourselves to people as a member of our state, both to each other, and in my case, to international friends (only in rare cases have I had to explain further).
我认为这是我们的优势。此外，虽然我们都认同自己是美国人，但我们对自己的居住州也有强烈的认同感。介绍自己的时候也介绍所在的州很常见的，无论是彼此介绍，还是向国际朋友介绍（我只在极少数情况下需要进一步解释）。
Wisconsin -> Missouri
Nearly half of countries have a population smaller than NYC alone.
将近一半的国家人口少于纽约市的人口。
California
I used to feel that way but then I stopped comparing the US to single countries, it's easier to compare the US to the EU
The states aren't as different but there is still a huge difference between Vermont and Alaska or Colorado and Louisiana or DC and North Dakota, in terms of culture, history, demographics, quality of life, politics
I'm obviously not saying that the states are as diverse as those in Europe, just that it makes more sense to compare states to countries in some situations
我曾经有过这种感觉，但后来我不再将美国与单个国家进行比较，将美国与欧盟进行比较更合适
各州之间的差异不大，但在文化、历史、人口统计、生活质量、政治方面，佛蒙特州和阿拉斯加、科罗拉多州和路易斯安那州、华盛顿特区和北达科他州之间仍有巨大差异
我显然不是说美国各州和欧洲各州一样多样化，只是说在某些情况下，将各州与单一国家进行比较更有意义。
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Kingdom of the Netherlands
I agree with you. I will never experience what it's like to fly for hours and still be in my own country, but flying from the Netherlands to Spain, Romania, or even Cyprus where - as an EU citizen - I enjoy the same rights as local residents comes close enough.
我同意你的看法。我永远不会体验飞行数小时仍然在我自己的国家是什么感觉，但是从荷兰飞往西班牙、罗马尼亚，甚至塞浦路斯——作为欧盟公民——我享有与当地居民足够接近的权利。
California-State of Jefferson
Also a big difference within the State. Northern California, Central California (where San Francisco is), Southern California. Very different from each other. Often drastically different.
州内也有很大差异。北加州、中加州（旧金山所在地）、南加州。彼此之间非常不同。甚至是大相径庭。
My best story for this is when I made friends in highschool with the exchange student from Sweden. I live in Kansas and we went somewhere in Oklahoma for some reason I can't remember why. Anyway we had been driving about an hour and a half and the was a pretty big lake next to the highway that went on and out of sight and he got a big smile and said "yes the ocean I've missed the ocean" i started laughing and said sorry bud that's a lake I can take you to the Ocean but it's another 8 hours south of here. He let out a wail and said how freaking big is this country.
我记得最清楚的故事是我在高中时与来自瑞典的交换生交了朋友。我住在堪萨斯州，出于某种我不记得为什么的原因，我们去了俄克拉荷马州的某个地方。不管怎样，我们已经开了大约一个半小时，高速公路旁边有一个很大的湖，一直开到看不见的地方，他露出灿烂的笑容，说“哇哦，我想念大海”，我忍不住笑着说对不起，兄弟，那是一个湖，我可以带你去海边，但它距离这里以南还有 8 小时车程。他发出一声哀嚎，说这个国家也太大了。
Detroit, Michigan
This. I could drive north for 9 hours and still be in the same state. The only countries that are bigger in size are Russia and Canada, and we definitely have more people than those because the weather is more favorable. The math checks out. Most countries are tiny.
加一。我可以向北行驶 9 小时，但仍处于同一个州内。面积较大的国家只有俄罗斯和加拿大，而且我们的人数肯定比这两个国家多，因为气候更好。总而言之，大多数国家都很小。
Maryland
Honestly other countries just seem really small, not the other way around. Like it’s wild to me that the entire country of Norway has fewer people than LA county, or that almost as many people live in the greater NYC area as they do in Australia.
老实说，其他国家看起来真的很小，而不是相反。对我来说，整个挪威的人口比洛杉矶县的人口还少，或者居住在大纽约地区的人口几乎与澳大利亚一样多，这对我来说很疯狂。
Brooklyn, USA
New Zealand hit 5 million back in 2020, which makes it smaller than NYC
新西兰在 2020 年达到 500 万，这使其小于纽约市
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NZ almost always has the best rugby team in the world. Its entire population is like half of the Chicago area. Imagine how easily we could dominate the entire world in rugby if we wanted to.
新西兰几乎总是拥有世界上最好的橄榄球队。它的总人口却只相当于芝加哥地区的一半。想象一下，如果我们愿意，我们可以多么轻松地在橄榄球运动中称霸整个世界。
Strange women lying in ponds
I've always thought this is just bad reasoning.
Australia has 5 times as many people as NZ.
England, France, and South Africa each have more than ten times as many people as NZ.
Yet somehow in spite of its tiny size, NZ is arguably the greatest national team in the entire sport.
There's more to sporting performance than just throwing people at it. Otherwise, China and India would dominate every sport in the world.
我一直认为这是种糟糕的推理。
澳大利亚的人口是新西兰的5倍。
英格兰、法国和南非的人口都是新西兰的十倍以上。
然而，尽管新西兰的面积很小，但它可以说是整个运动领域最伟大的国家队。
体育运动的表现不仅仅是把人丢在那里。否则，中国和印度将主宰世界上的每一项运动。
It always amazes me that Canada is smaller in population than California
加拿大的人口比加利福尼亚少，这总是让我感到惊讶
Iowa
Even better, the greater Tokyo area has 1 million more people than Canada.
更妙的是，大东京地区的人口比加拿大多 100 万。
Missouri, Oklahoma
As the saying goes: Americans think 100 years is a long time, Europeans think 100 miles is a long distance.
俗话说得好：美国人认为100年很长，欧洲人认为100英里很远。
South Carolina
to be fair, europe has changed massively in 100 years and even lost their relevance in that amount of time.
公平地说，欧洲在 100 年里发生了翻天覆地的变化，甚至在这段时间里失去了存在感。
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The Rose Bowl in Pasadena or UMich Stadium in Ann Arbor each could seat the entire combined population of the five smallest nations.
帕萨迪纳的玫瑰碗体育场或安娜堡的密歇根大学体育场都可以容纳五个最小国家的全部人口。
Washington
It's not bad. USA is around the same size as China, but we have only about 1/4th of China's population. I see that as an advantage.
（回答主贴的问题）不算太差。美国的面积和中国差不多，但我们的人口只有中国的1/4左右。我认为这是一个优势。
Missouri
We’re actually larger than China.
我们实际上比中国还大。
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Washington
Edit: The USA vs China size thing can lead to some annoying discussions involving technicality, semantics, and worst of all, Nationalism. Therefore, I don't want to dig too deep in that hole.
Which is why I said "about the same size". According to World Atlas, yes, the US is the bigger of the two. We also have a larger amount of arable land in comparison to China. People tend to overlook the natural and geographical advantages of living in the United States.
编辑：美国与中国的大小问题会导致一些恼人的讨论，涉及技术性、语义学，以及最糟糕的民族主义。因此，我不想在这方面过于展开。
这就是为什么我说"差不多大小"。根据《世界地图集》，是的，美国是两个国家中较大的。与中国相比，我们的可耕地面积也更大。人们往往忽视了生活在美国的自然和地理优势。
We are larger than China when you include the ocean that we own and exclude all of the ocean that they own. I believe that even when you exclude the nine-dash line and all that bullshit, they are larger.
当你把我们拥有的海洋面积都算上去并排除他们拥有的所有海洋时，我们比中国大。我相信，即使你排除九段线和所有那些废话，中国也更大。
North Carolina
It’s a strange feeling when you remember most countries, let alone first world democracies, usually don’t get close to a third of our population.
It’s also weird to think that I live on the shores of the Great Lakes in a part of the country that’s frozen 7 months a year and that tropical south Florida, the Californian desert, and a tropical island in the middle of the pacific are all parts of the same country as me.
当你想起大多数国家，更不用说第一世界的民主国家，人口通常不接近我们人口的三分之一，这种感觉很奇怪。
我住在一年有7个月是冰冻的大湖岸边，是这个国家的一个部分，而热带的南佛罗里达，加利福尼亚的沙漠，以及太平洋中间的一个热带岛屿，都是和我同一个国家的一部分，这种感觉也很奇怪。
New Jersey
I feel that way a lot when I travel to “faraway” parts of the US.
Like, I love Las Vegas for example and every time I go there’s a part of me that looks around at all that mighty desert and thinks “I come from a small sea level peninsula on the ocean, covered in over 50% trees, with a gigantic freshwater aquifer etc…. and this place is still the same country. Feels weird that my ID even works here.”
当我到美国"遥远"的地区旅行时，我经常有这种感觉。
例如，我喜欢拉斯维加斯，每次我去的时候，看着周围无边的沙漠，我不禁心想："我来自一个临海的小半岛，那里树木覆盖超过50%，淡水含水层丰富等等....这个与之完全相反的地方竟然和那里是同一个国家。我的身份证在这里还能用，感觉真奇怪。”
Florida
The gap is so wide between 2nd and 3rd I don’t ever really think about our large population size
第二和第三之间的差距如此之大，以至于我从来没有真正考虑过我们庞大的人口规模
WY->UT->CO->MT->SD->MT->Germany->NJ->PA
I'm more floored by how big a gap is between second and third. Our population would have to triple before we're in the running for second
我对第二和第三之间的差距有多大更加感到震惊。在我们竞选第二名之前，我们的人口必须增加三倍
Florida
In general, it doesn’t really feel like that many people. Especially when you consider both China and India have more than a billion more people than we do. I honestly can’t imagine having that many people here.
总的来说，真的没有那么多人的感觉。尤其是考虑到中国和印度的人口都比我们多 10 亿多。老实说，我无法想象在这里有像中国印度那么多人口的感觉。
New Mexico
I don't really feel anything from it. We have a lot of people but also a lot of land, so we're not crowded. Germany fits over 80 million people in an area smaller than Montana.
At least out west, I barely see a fraction of that 330 million
我真的没有任何感觉。我们有很多人，但也有很多土地，所以我们并不拥挤。德国的面积比蒙大拿还小，人口超过 8000 万。
至少在西部，我几乎看不到3.3 亿中的一小部分
It's a massive country with a lot of habitable land. I'm shocked the population isn't higher to be honest
这是一个幅员辽阔的国家，拥有大量适合居住的土地。老实说，我倒是震惊于人口没那么多
OP
Yep. China has a little less arable lands than the US, despite being more or less the same size and has a population of 1 billion.
是的。中国的耕地面积比美国少一点，尽管面积和美国差不多，而且有 10 亿人口。
New York
That's probably why we export loads of pork to China.
这可能就是我们向中国出口大量猪肉的原因。
Washington
Those cute lil boutique countries where most people are the same ethnicity and their families have been there for centuries and you can go to the other side of the country as a day trip without changing weather and where a lot more things are centrally governed and standardized are kind of wild to me.
那些小小的可爱的精品国家，大多数人都是同一种族，他们的家人已经在那里生活了几个世纪，你可以在没有改变天气的情况下去国家的另一边作为一日游，那里有很多东西是集中管理和标准化的。对我来说有点疯狂。
New York
Some weeks ago an Australian commenter was saying in a thread that Americans have a hard time generalizing. The specific conversation was about schools.
Well...this is why. How do you make any generalizations about 330 million people? Not to mention the tremendous regional variations in culture and geography that we have.
几周前，一位澳大利亚评论员在一个话题中表示，美国人很难一概而论。具体的谈话是关于学校的。
好吧……这就是为什么。你如何对 3.3 亿人进行概括？更不用说我们所拥有的巨大的文化和地理区域差异。
California
People from smaller countries have a hard time wrapping their head around the size of our country. I have a friend from New Zealand who asked why we don't have a gondola that takes people from the bottom of the mountain to the top (we live in LA, so they were talking about Big Bear)... uhhhh, because our CITY has 3x the amount of people that your whole COUNTRY? Plus people are coming in from OC, San Diego etc. I know traffic up and down the mountain sucks, but it's not realistic to have some of the same luxuries smaller countries do.
All my friends from Aus, NZ, and the UK complain about about lack of public transit. Our cities are so big and there's so many people we cannot accommodate that- we dropped the ball big time and there is no going back right now. Canadians don't have a great transit system either because Canada is so large, and yet there's more people in my state then there is in all of Canada. Their public transit is better than ours, but it's still not what other nations have.
People have a really hard time understanding how big it is and how many people are actually here and what that means for us long term and on an everyday basis.
来自小国的人很难理解我们国家的规模。我有一个来自新西兰的朋友问我们为什么没有缆车把人从山下带到山顶（我们住在洛杉矶，所以他们说的是大熊山）......呃，因为我们的城市的人口是你们整个国家的3倍？加上人们从橙县、圣地亚哥等地赶来。我知道上山下山的交通很糟糕，但要想拥有一些小国家的奢侈品是不现实的。
我所有来自澳大利亚、新西兰和英国的朋友都抱怨美国缺乏公共交通。但是我们的城市如此之大，人口如此之多，我们是无法满足这些需求的--我们在这方面很大程度上掉了链子，现在已经没有回头路了。加拿大人也没有一个很好的交通系统，因为加拿大是如此之大，但我所在的州的人口比整个加拿大都多。他们的公共交通系统比我们的好，但仍然比不上其他国家的。
人们真的很难理解这里有多大、到底有多少人，以及这对我们长期和日常来说意味着什么。
New Jersey
I would love a nationwide high speed rail system, but the US is so huge that it would be a massive investment. And our major metro areas are farther apart from each other than in Europe, which makes it less attractive than flying long distances.
我会喜欢有一个全国性的高铁系统，但美国幅员辽阔，这将是一项巨大的投资。而且我们的主要都市区彼此之间的距离比欧洲更远，这使得它的吸引力不如长途飞行。
I think almost everybody, Americans and non-Americans, forgets how large of a population the US has.
This makes generalizations about the country especially irritating and short-sighted.
It also makes me more prone to identifying the state I’m from, rather than just saying I’m American.
I don’t necessarily feel like I identify well with others who are from regions far away from the states where I grew up and where I currently live. The feeling of disconnect is absolutely there for me.
Additionally, having such a large population makes it much more difficult to appropriately govern. There are just too many variables to account for in large countries to help with the needs/wants of everybody.
我认为几乎每个人，包括美国人和非美国人，都忘记了美国有多么庞大的人口。
这使得对这个国家的概括特别令人恼火和短视。
这也使我更倾向于介绍我来自哪个州，而不仅仅是说我是美国人。
我不一定觉得自己能很好地认同那些来自远离我长大的地方和我目前居住的州的人。对我来说，这种脱节的感觉是绝对存在的。
此外，拥有如此多的人口使得适当的治理更加困难。大国需要考虑的变数太多，无法满足每个人的需求。
Chicago 》Colorado
The US is massive. But what it really demonstrates is how outrageous the sizes of India and China are. These are massive countries the likes of which the world has never seen before, and the idea that one government runs that many people is almost insane to comprehend
美国是巨大的。但它真正展示的是印度和中国的体量有多么离谱。这些都是世界上前所未见的大国，一个政府管理这么多人的想法几乎是疯了才能理解
North Carolina
I think our government is a bit more insane to comprehend. Imagine having a country where the power comes from the states (some of which are country-sized), and the states don't immediately start in-fighting.
For most of history, I think countries have tended to favor centralized rule. "China" has done it since the Qin Dynasty, since every time the power of the provinces outweighs the central authority, they immediately start killing each other. See Warring States Era, Three Kingdoms Era, 16 Kingdoms Era, Republican Era.
我认为我们的政府更疯狂、更让人难以理解一些。想象一下，有一个国家的权力来自各州（其中一些州跟一个国家一样大小），而各州却不会立即开始内斗。
在历史上的大部分时间里，我认为各国都倾向于中央集权统治。"中国"从秦朝开始就这样做了，因为每当各省的权力超过中央权力时，他们就会立即开始互相残杀。见战国时代、三国时代、十六国时代、民国时代。
I’m fine with having a large population. But I would be worried if our population density became really high.
我对人口众多感到满意。但如果我们的人口密度变得非常高，我会担心。
Philly -> Denver
I don't feel any way about it but I guess it's weird when put in perspective. We have a large enough expanse of land that I can be amongst millions of people or nobody.
我对此没有任何感觉，但一旦切入这个角度就感觉很奇怪。我们有足够广阔的土地，我可以置身于数百万人之中，也可以置身于无人之地之中。
Third most populous, and there are still places where you can drive all day and not see another person.
人口第三多，还有一些地方你可以开一整天也见不到另一个人。