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Congress can pass a law to change the total number of representatives if it wants to, but the number hasn't changed from 435 since 1910.
如果国会需要的话,它就可以通过一项法律改变众议员的总数,但自1910年以来,众议员人数就一直是435位 。
Larger states have more representatives than smaller states do.
大州比小州拥有更多众议员 。
Right now, California has the most, with 53 representatives.
当前,加州众议员最多,有53位 。
Several of the smallest states, such as Wyoming, Montana, and North and South Dakota, have only one representative each.
若干个最小的州如怀俄明、蒙大拿、南达科他和北达科他等都只有一名众议员 。
The U.S. government does a census every few years, which is an official count of the number of people living in the country.
美国政府每隔几年就会进行一次人口普查,也就是居住在这个国家里人数的官方统计 。
After each census, how many representatives each state gets of the 435 seats (or positions) in the House of Representatives is redone.
每次人口普查之后,每个州能获得多少个众议院中435个席位的数量就会重新调整 。
This means that states that have grown may get more representatives and states that have shrunk (or become smaller) get fewer representatives.
这就意味着人口增长的州可能会得到更多的众议员、人口减少的州就会得到更少的众议员 。
This process is called apportionment, which means deciding how something should be shared among many people or, in this case, among many states.
这种方式被称为国会议员名额的分配,它的意思决定在多个人中某物该如何分配,而在这里,是多个州中 。
In addition to the 435 representatives, the House also has four delegates who can speak at the meetings but cannot vote.
除了435位众议员外,众议院还有四位代表,他们可以在会议上发言但却不能投票 。
These delegates represent Washington, D.C. (the nation's capitol),
这几个人代表华盛顿哥伦比亚特区(美国国会),
and the country's territories, which are areas of land that belong to the United States but are not states.
和国家领土,也就是隶属于美国但未成立州府的地区 。
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