根据这条规律，一个国家的最大城市的人口将是其第二大城市人口的两倍左右，是第三城市人口的3倍，依此类推。
According to this law, the biggest metropolis in a country will have roughly twice the population of its nearest rival; three times the population of the third-ranked city; and so on.
每段对话被分发给五个志愿者，研究者将稿子中的第5个词、第10个词、第15个词……（依此类推）去掉，然后让志愿者根据自己的猜测读出五个不同的版本。
Each conversation was given to five volunteers who read five different versions with every fifth word removed and were asked to guess the missing word.
根据人造物品类推，信息是金融系统的附加值。
By analogy with manufactured goods, information is the added value in financial systems.
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