他要求他们参加会议以增加出席人数。

He asked them to come to the meeting to swell the Numbers.

youdao

首先，我得知道人数——参加会议的代表，他们的丈夫或妻子等等——因为要安排交通和其他事情。

First I've got to have numbers—delegates to the conference, their husbands or wives and so on—for the transport as much as anything else.

youdao

但是，到会期临近时，几个准备去参加会议的朋友和支持者坚持要我和他们一起去。

At the last minute, though, several friends and supporters who were planning to go insisted that I join them.

youdao

They just had their annual conference in Chicago, where there's about 60,000 people attending.

他们才在芝加哥召开了年度会议，大概有6万人参加。

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