2021届巴蜀中学新高考英语美国文化外刊[21]众议院中有多少位投票议员？（含注解与翻译）.docx

1、2021届巴蜀中学新高考英语美国文化外刊21（含翻译与重点词汇短语注解）全文速览The House of Representatives has how many voting members?Answer:Four hundred thirty-five (435)Explanation:Americans live all over the United States, but some places are much more popular than others.For example, more than 35 million people live in California,

2、but only about 500,000 people live inWyoming.One of the challenges (or difficult things to do) in the U.S. government is to let big and small statesparticipate inthe governmentfairly.Is it fair to give both states equalparticipationin the government?Or should California have more power than Wyoming

3、since it has so many more people?The people who created the U.S. government decided that they would have to answer “yes” to both questions.They createdthe Senate, where each state has equal power no matter how big or small it is,and they createdthe House of Representatives, where states with more pe

4、ople have more power than states with fewer people.The House of Representatives currently has 435representatives, or people who are elected (or chosen by large groups of people) to make decisions for their states.Congress can pass a law to change the total number of representatives if it wants to, b

5、ut the number hasnt changedfrom435 since 1910.Larger states have more representatives than smaller states do.Right now, California has the most, with 53 representatives.Several ofthe smallest states, such asWyoming,Montana, and North and South Dakota, have only one representative each.The U.S. gover

6、nment does acensusevery few years, which is an officialcountof the number of people living in the country.After eachcensus, how many representatives each state gets of the 435 seats (or positions) inthe House of Representativesisredone.This means that states that have grown may get more representati

7、ves and states that haveshrunk(or become smaller) get fewer representatives.This process is calledapportionment, which means deciding how something should be shared among many people or, in this case, among many states.In addition to the 435 representatives, the House also has fourdelegateswho can s

8、peak at the meetings but cannot vote.Thesedelegatesrepresent Washington, D.C. (the nationscapitol),and the countrysterritories, which are areas of land that belong to the United States but are not states.翻译和笔记The House of Representativeshas how many voting members?众议院中有多少位投票议员？ the House of Represen

9、tatives众议院 voting members投票议员Answer:Four hundred thirty-five (435)435位Explanation:Americans live all over the United States, but some places are much more popular than others.For example, more than 35 million people live in California, but only about 500,000 people live inWyoming.One of the challeng

10、es (or difficult things to do) in the U.S. government is to let big and small statesparticipate inthe governmentfairly.Is it fair to give both states equalparticipationin the government?Or should California have more power than Wyoming since it has so many more people?美国人遍及全美国，但有些地方要比其它地方更受欢迎。例如，加州有

11、3500多万人口，而怀俄明州只有50万人口。美国政府面临的一大挑战（难做的事情）就是让大小州平等地参与到政府事务当中。但让大小州平等地参与到政府事务当中公平吗？或者说因为加州有更多的人口，所以它应该要比怀俄明州拥有更多的权力？ Wyoming/waiumi/n. 怀俄明州(美国州名) fairlyadv. 公平地The people who created the U.S. government decided that they would have to answer “yes” to both questions.They createdthe Senate, where each st

12、ate has equal power no matter how big or small it is,and they createdthe House of Representatives, where states with more people have more power than states with fewer people.The House of Representatives currently has 435representatives, or people who are elected (or chosen by large groups of people

13、) to make decisions for their states.美国政府的创立者认为他们必须对这两个问题作出肯定的回答。他们创立了参议院，无论州的大小，参议院里的每个州都拥有同等的权力；他们还创立了众议院，众议院里人口更多的州比人口更少的州拥有更多的权力。众议院目前有435位众议员，或者说是被选出来（或者由一大群人选举产生）替他们州做决定的人。 the Senate参议院 representative美国众议院议员a member of the House of Representatives, the Lower House of Congress in the United St

14、atesCongress can pass a law to change the total number of representatives if it wants to, but the number hasnt changedfrom435 since 1910.Larger states have more representatives than smaller states do.Right now, California has the most, with 53 representatives.Several ofthe smallest states, such asWy

15、oming,Montana, and North and South Dakota, have only one representative each.如果国会需要的话，它就可以通过一项法律改变众议员的总数，但自1910年以来，众议员人数就一直是435位。大州比小州拥有更多众议员。当前，加州众议员最多，有53位。若干个最小的州如怀俄明、蒙大拿、南达科他和北达科他等都只有一名众议员。 Montana/mntn/n. 蒙大纳(美国州名)The U.S. government does acensusevery few years, which is an officialcountof the

16、number of people living in the country.After eachcensus, how many representatives each state gets of the 435 seats (or positions) inthe House of Representativesisredone.This means that states that have grown may get more representatives and states that haveshrunk(or become smaller) get fewer represe

17、ntatives.This process is calledapportionment, which means deciding how something should be shared among many people or, in this case, among many states.美国政府每隔几年就会进行一次人口普查，也就是居住在这个国家里人数的官方统计。每次人口普查之后，每个州能获得多少个众议院中435个席位的数量就会重新调整。这就意味着人口增长的州可能会得到更多的众议员、人口减少的州就会得到更少的众议员。这种方式被称为国会议员名额的分配，它的意思是：决定在多个人中某物

18、该如何分配，而在这里，是多个州中。 census/senss/n. 人口普查 every few years每隔几年 count总数 redo/ridu/重做to do something again in a different way , especially in order to correct or improve itMy teacher told me toredomy essay.老师让我重写我的论文。 shrink（数量、体积或价值）变小，减少，缩小to become or to make something smaller in amount, size, or value

19、The firms staff hadshrunkto only four people.这家公司的员工减少到只剩四个人了。 apportionment/pnmnt/分摊; 分担; 分派; 分配the action or result of apportioning somethingan exercise inapportionmentof blame分担责任的做法In addition to the 435 representatives, the House also has fourdelegateswho can speak at the meetings but cannot vo

20、te.Thesedelegatesrepresent Washington, D.C. (the nationscapitol),and the countrysterritories, which are areas of land that belong to the United States but are not states.除了435位众议员外，众议院还有四位代表，他们可以在会议上发言但却不能投票。这几个人代表华盛顿哥伦比亚特区（美国国会），和国家领土，也就是隶属于美国但未成立州府的地区。 delegate/delgt/代表a person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference Capitol/kptl/美国国会（位于华盛顿特区）the seat of the US Congress in Washington DC territory/tert()r/n. 领土