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On this last day of October, a global first.
十月的最後一天，全球首度創下這個紀錄。

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There's estimated there are now seven billion people on the planet, that's one billion more than just 12 years ago. 
據估計，現在全球人口已經達到七十億人，比僅僅十二年前多出了十億人，

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And it took us [less time] than ever to reach this milestone.
而且人類是以空前的速度達到這個里程碑。

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Now the world hit the one billion mark back in 1800. It took another 130 years to reach two billion. 
全世界早在一八○○年時達到十億人之譜，後來又花了一百三十年達到二十億人。

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Now the population is growing so fast, there is a baby born nearly every second in India. 
如今人口增長的速度如此之快，在印度將近每秒鐘都有一名嬰兒誕生。

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And that's where, according to some reports, the seven billionth baby was born today.
而且根據某些報導，全球第七十億個嬰兒就是今天在印度誕生。

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Just in case you're still trying to wrap your head around this big number, Richard Roth, he goes where few men have gone before in New York City.
為了避免萬一你還在絞盡腦汁試圖理解這個龐大的數字，理查‧羅斯前往了紐約市以往少有人造訪的地方。

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Seven billion, hard to believe and hold up.
七十億，難以置信也難以打住。

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It's a humongous number that's beyond most people's comprehension.
這數字大到超出大多數人的理解範圍。

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Seven billion people on planet Earth.
地球上有七十億人。

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Seven billion?
七十億？

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As in billion.
單位是十億哦。

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Wow!
哇！

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A symbolic but powerful number.
一個具有象徵意義，但威力十足的數字。

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Have you seen these people, the seven billion?
你看過這麼多人嗎？七十億人？

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No, I haven't.
沒看過。

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Have you created any of those seven billion?
你創造過七十億人中的任何人嗎？

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I hope not.
希望沒有。

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Oh, baby! This hospital arrival looks like he wants to accept the prize, but emerged too early. 
喔，寶貝！這位在醫院降臨的新生兒看起來像是要來領這個獎的，但他來得太早了。

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Another baby's mother, not disappointed at just missing producing the [seven] billionth human.
另一名嬰兒的母親，對於剛好錯過生出第七十億個人類並不感到失望。

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Oh, wow. No. I mean, he came out at the time he was supposed to [come] out, but he was close.
哇，我並不覺得失望。我是指他在該生出來的時候生出來了就好了，不過他也很接近了。

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What does the number seven billion, as indicated in this sign in front of the UN, what does that mean to you as a demographer?
在聯合國前這個標示牌上顯示的七十億這個數字，對於身為人口學家的您來說有什麼意義？

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That large... that we have increased the population of the world by an enormous amount in a very short time. We're adding 75 million people every year.
那個巨大的……那代表我們在極短的時間內讓全球的人口數量大增。地球人口每年增加七千五百萬人。

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They're everywhere. It also seems there are seven billion baby carriages in Manhattan.
他們無所不在。好像曼哈頓市區裡也有七十億台嬰兒車似的。

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Why did you decide to have a child, if I may ask, with so many people on the planet?
你為何決定要生孩子，請容我這麼問，地球上已經有這麼多人了？

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I live in Ohio, and it doesn't seem to be as crowded. So, I moved out of New York.
我住在俄亥俄州，感覺上沒那麼擁擠，所以我搬離紐約了。

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Why is your child now crying, since I've asked you that question?
為什麼你的孩子在我問了你這個問題之後就哭了？

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So, you don't want people to have any more kids?
所以你不希望人們再多生小孩了？

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I didn't say that.
我可沒這麼說。

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As the secretary-general of the world, are you ready to tell people, "Stop having children, or at least in Manhattan?"
身為聯合國秘書長，您是否準備告訴人們：「別再生小孩了，或者至少別在曼哈頓？」

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Let us make sure that this seven billionth child can live without any shortages, can live in peace...
讓我們確保這第七十億名孩子能在不虞匱乏、和平的環境下生活……

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Ladies, good evening. I'm Richard Roth of CNN.
女士們，晚安，我是CNN的理查‧羅斯。

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I entered a womb-like environment in the back of a Mexican restaurant where few men had gone before.
我進到了一家墨西哥餐廳後面一個像子宮一樣的環境裡，很少有人來過這兒。

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Just living in Manhattan, you feel so sort of claustrophobic and you think that number... it's just massive
住在曼哈頓，你會有點幽閉恐懼的感覺，你一想到那個數字…就是太大了。

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It's a new mom support luncheon. Hmm, baby knows what's coming.
這是一個新手媽媽互助午餐會。嬰兒知道接下來會怎樣。

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What do you think about bringing a child into this world with seven billion people? When is enough enough?
你對於讓一個孩子來到這個擁有七十億人的世界有何想法？要到什麼時候才算真的是夠了？

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I didn't even ever give it a second thought? Yeah. It means nothing to me.
我根本從來沒想過這個問題。這對我而言毫無意義。

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The child or the seven billionth today? What?
你是指孩子還是今天的第七十億個嬰兒？還是什麼？

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The child means everything. 
孩子意義重大。

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If you told people in the 1800s to stop having babies where would we be now? So, it's... I say keep doing it.
如果你在一八○○年代叫人們不要生孩子了，我們現在會在哪裡？所以，我會說繼續生吧。