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"The vast majority of them are just ordinary people who've seen something unusual and thought that they ought to tell someone about it," Clarke has said.

“绝大多数人，都是普通人，他们看到了来自空中的一些不寻常的事情，并且认为他们应该告诉别人这些事情。”Clarke说道。

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The captain in this analogy is the owner of the ship or fleet; he represents the demos, the majority of ordinary people.

船长在这个比喻中是航船或船队的主人；他代表大众，普通人中的大多数。

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And, to be sure, there were lots of crowds in Paris were the inevitable crowds who shouted for war, which was sort of odd because Paris was increasingly a leftwing city, because the vast majority of the population of Paris were ordinary people,were workers, more about that another time when I talk about Paris.

很多巴黎民众涌上街头,个个嚷着要上战场,而这对巴黎这座逐渐左倾的城市有些令人惊奇,因为这座城市的多数人,都是平民和工人,关于这点我会在讲到巴黎时再和大家讨论

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Progressives oppose the death penalty, and they believe that this makes them morally superior to the majority of ordinary Americans (64% in the most recent Gallup poll) who support it.

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To have a chance at a majority, then, Democratic politicians need to give substantial numbers of ordinary people a reason to vote for them.

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