As mass production techniques were refined in the 19th century, the price of pianos dropped to the point that a larger proportion of the population could afford to own them.

随着19世纪大规模生产技术的改进，钢琴的价格下降到更多人都买得起的程度。

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Only a small fraction of the population was literate, but the production of books grew at an extraordinary speed.

只有一小部分人识字，但书籍的产量却以惊人的速度增长。

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Most of the area, population, and industrial production of the Soviet Union, then one of the world "s two superpowers, lay in Russia."

前苏联大部分的地区，人口和工业生产在俄罗斯，使之成为世界两大超级大国之一。

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That affects the economy. In rural communities, if the population is always sick, they can't work in the fields and production suffers.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

At his 95th birthday party in Dallas last March, Borlaug spoke to VOA about the need to continue expanding food production to meet the needs of a growing world population.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Global grain production outpaced population growth, and Mr Borlaug won the Nobel peace prize in 1970 for saving hundreds of millions of lives.

ECONOMIST: Norman Borlaug

Zambia's unwise nationalisation of the mines in 1969 (as advised by the best of British development economists) may have contributed to declining copper production but population pressures, shifts in the terms of trade since the 1970s and a burden of debt to the West that originated then in recycled petro-dollars have contributed massively to the impoverishment of the country.

ECONOMIST: Poor Africa

They have tried drought and famine, but world food production continues to outpace population, despite warmer temperatures than 100 years ago.

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