The number of adults doing weekly sport did rise, by nearly 2 million in the run—up to 2012—but the general population was growing faster.

截至2012年，每周锻炼身体的成年人数量的确增加了将近两百万，但总人口增长速度更快。

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This means the rate of reduction of the whale population cannot be countered by such a rise in births.

这意味着鲸鱼出生率的上升无法抵消鲸鱼数量的减少。

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The number of adults doing weekly sport did rise, by nearly 2 million in the run-up to 2012—but the general population was growing faster.

虽然每周锻炼身体的成年人数量的确有所上升，到2012年增加了将近两百万，但总人口增长速度更快。

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One answer, and it's the one that is most widely believed among Greek scholars, is that the growth of population that we have mentioned in connection with the rise of the polis is still working once the polis comes into form.

原因之一是,这个原因是被广大古希腊学者们所接受的,那就是,人口的增长与城邦的数量,在城邦兴起的阶段还是基本一致的

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More subtly, the rise of the grouper population favoured those species of parrotfish that grow too large for groupers to eat.

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