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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.
如果國會需要的話，它就可以通過一項法律改變眾議員的總數，但自1910年以來，眾議員人數就一直是435位。
Larger states have more representatives than smaller states do.
大州比小州擁有更多眾議員。
Right now, California has the most, with 53 representatives.
當前，加州眾議員最多，有53位。
Several of the smallest states, such as Wyoming, Montana, and North and South Dakota, have only one representative each.
若干個最小的州如懷俄明、蒙大拿、南達科他和北達科他等都只有一名眾議員。
The U.S. government does a census every few years, which is an official count of the number of people living in the country.
美國政府每隔幾年就會進行一次人口普查，也就是居住在這個國家里人數的官方統計。
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，每個州能獲得多少個眾議院中435個席位的數量就會重新調整。
This means that states that have grown may get more representatives and states that have shrunk (or become smaller) get fewer representatives.
這就意味著人口增長的州可能會得到更多的眾議員、人口減少的州就會得到更少的眾議員。
This process is called apportionment, which means deciding how something should be shared among many people or, in this case, among many states.
這種方式被稱為國會議員名額的分配，它的意思決定在多個人中某物該如何分配，而在這里，是多個州中。
In addition to the 435 representatives, the House also has four delegates who can speak at the meetings but cannot vote.
除了435位眾議員外，眾議院還有四位代表，他們可以在會議上發言但卻不能投票。
These delegates represent Washington, D.C. (the nation's capitol),
這幾個人代表華盛頓哥倫比亞特區（美國國會），
and the country's territories, which are areas of land that belong to the United States but are not states.
和國家領土，也就是隸屬于美國但未成立州府的地區。
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