This would be surprising were it not for the fact, so visible from above, that the world is still a sparsely populated place.

事实上从天上看下来这世界还算是人烟稀少，所以没有人被击中也不算太让人吃惊。

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They looked at death rates by county, having corrected for migration and merged sparsely populated ones so that America's 3,141 counties became 2,068 "county units".

他们在每个县调查死亡率，除去移民和新出现的人口稀少的地区，美国由3141个县变成2068个。

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They looked at death rates by county, having corrected for migration and merged sparsely populated ones so that America's 3, 141 counties became 2, 068 “county units”.

通过除去移民因素，合并人口较少的县，他们把美国的3141个县分为了2068个“县级单位”；再调查每个县的死亡率。

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So this fall the pressure is on in this sparsely populated high desert, where cows outnumber residents and crew cuts never went out of fashion.

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The Gulf is so far away that prior to World War Two, few Americans thought there was any reason to visit the sparsely populated region, much less establish a permanent military presence there.

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