It's hard to tell exactly how many people agree with him, but research indicates that the numbers have been rising for some time.

很难确切说出有多少人同意他的观点，但研究表明，这个数字已经上升了一段时间。

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Many of us spend far too much time thinking about how some material possession will improve our lives.

很多人花了很多时间思考物质如何能改善自己的生活。

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Some are just simple counting problems, such as figuring out how many requests it serves a day, how many searches it serves a day, what the average time it takes to process those transactions is, etc.

有些只是简单的计数问题，如计算出有多少请求它的服务，每天有多少搜索服务等等。

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As I said, in some context last time, how many Russian peasants died in the 1890s thinking, "Oh my god, if the Czar only knew that we're starving, how angry he would be with his officials."

就像我在上一讲提到的,有多少死于1890年代的俄国农民会想,"上帝啊,要是沙皇知道我们在挨饿就好了,他该对手下的官员发多大的火啊"

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But an accurate estimate of how many people died may not be available for some time, Imperato says, because it will require tallying up missing people, many of whom were swept away from where they died or out to sea.

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Some people criticize that stance, but how many of you leave your homes every time there is a major snowstorm?

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