The difference between the mobile phone and its parent, the fixed-line phone, is that a mobile number corresponds to a person, while a landline goes to a place.

移动电话和它的祖先固定电话的区别在于，移动电话号码对应的是一个人，而固定电话对应的是一个地方。

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No one really knows how many different faces someone can recall, for example, but various estimates tend to hover in the thousands—based on the number of acquaintances a person might have.

例如，没人确切地知道一个人究竟能记住多少张不同的面孔，但是各类评估倾向于几千张上下——依据一个人可能相识的人数来判断。

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The number of candles is the age of that person.

蜡烛的数目就是那个人的年龄。

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Many people consider themselves number one, the most important person.

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And then the person who actually plugs in all the numbers and gets the right number will get ten.

对于那些人,他们加了所有的数,并且得到正确的结果，将会得到十分。

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So this is like crossing off the person in position number 2 here.

这就像是划掉,2号位上的人或物。

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In person, that number of visitors and page turns would have turned fragile documents to dust.

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Those would be plotted on a graph that would allow Acquisti to try to predict the target person's number.

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The rule is that if you are over 12, you have to apply for your number in person.

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