统计学家

Society prepares the crime," wrote Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian statistician, in 1835,"and the guilty person is only the instrument.

社会造成了犯罪行为，"比利时统计学家阿道夫？奎特雷在1835年曾写道，"犯罪的人只是个工具。

These episodes in individual tales display such striking regularities in aggregate that some of the social scientists who first applied the rules of probability to human affairs questioned the very notion of free will."Society prepares the crime," wrote Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian statistician, in 1835,"and the guilty person is only the instrument."

这些互相独立的故事中的一幕幕情节都显示出惊人的规律性（这些相互独立的故事都有着惊人相似的情节），因此，那些最早将概率法则应用于分析人类事件的社会科学家们颇为质疑所谓的自由意愿这个概念。1835年，比利时统计学家阿道夫·凯特勒（注1）曾写道，"人类社会酝酿了罪行，犯罪的个体只是工具罢了。"

Statisticians said at least 70 per cent of the population rise over the next 20 years will be attributable directly to immigration

统计学家说，在未来20年的人口增长中70%的人是因为直接移民而产生的。

Statisticians said at least 70 per cent of the population rise over the next 20 years will be attributable directly to immigration.

统计学家说在未来的20年中至少70%的人口增长将直接是由移民造成的。

By 2050, most demographers agree that non-Hispanic white people will be a minority in the overall national population.

大多数人口统计学家一致认为，到2050年，拉美裔以外的白种人将成为美国全国总人口中的少数。

The comparative stability of the aggregates cannot, however, be accounted for—as the statisticians occasionally seem to be inclined to do—by the "law of large numbers" or the mutual compensation of random changes.

然而，总量的相对稳定性并不能—像统计学家们偶尔所做的那样--用"大数定律"或随机变动的相互抵消来解释。要对付的因素的个数还没有大到偶然因素产生稳定性的程度。

The demographer will coordinate data collection and analysis on human settlements conditions .

这个人口统计学家将会整合这些数据并分析人类的居住条件。

China's unbalanced sex ratio may cause serious consequences as millions of men will be unlikely to find their spouses around 2020, said a Chinese demographer.

中国不平衡的性别比率也许会导致一系列问题，到2020年左右，将可能会有数百万的男性找不到他们的配偶，一位中国人口统计学家说。

I don't know of any statistician's lobby to try to keep out foreign statisticians. The more of them we import, the better off we are.

我不知道有任何统计学家游说团，企图把外国统计学家排除在外，我们能将他们引进越多，我们会做得越好。

Three statisticians go out hunting together. After a while they spot a solitary rabbit. The first statistician takes aim and overshoots. The second aims and undershoots. The third shouts out We got him!

三个统计学家一起去打猎，过了一会儿他们看见了一只兔子爬在那，第一个统计学家瞄准打高了，第二个瞄准打低了，第三个喊道：&打中了。&

If you are unfortunate enough to the lovelorn, please tell me, I will help you out, really, please contact me!

如果你不幸失恋了，请告诉我，我会帮助你摆脱困境，真的，请联系我啦！

China's plan to cut energy intensity by 20 percent and pollutant discharges by 10 percent between 2006 and 2010 is a case in point.

中国计划在2006年到2010间降低20%的能源强度和减少10%的主要污染物排放，就是一个这样的例子。