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25.Why do some states have more Representatives than other states?
25.為什么有些州的眾議員比其他州要多？
Answer: (Because of) the state's population; (Because) they have more people; (Because) some states have more people
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Explanation: The fifty states of the United States have very different sizes, both in terms of (or related to) how much land there is and the population (or how many people there are).
解釋：從面積的大小和人口的多少（有多少人生活在那里）這兩方面來看，美國(guó)的50個(gè)州有很大的差異。
Some states are very large but have very few people; other states are very small but have many people.
有些州面積很大，但人口很少；其他州面積很小，但人口卻很多。
Even so, all fifty states need to be represented in the federal government.
盡管如此，所有的50個(gè)州都要在聯(lián)邦政府中得到體現(xiàn)。
What was the solution?
解決辦法是什么呢？
The Founding Fathers, or the people who created the U.S. government, decided to have two parts for lawmaking.
美國(guó)國(guó)父?jìng)儯蛘哒f創(chuàng)立美國(guó)政府的人，決定將立法分為兩部分。
One is the Senate, where each state has two representatives known as senators, no matter how many people live there.
其中一個(gè)是參議院，不論每個(gè)州有多少人口，它都有兩名稱之為參議員的代表。
The other is the House of Representatives, where the number of representatives that each state has is proportional to its population,
另外一個(gè)是眾議院，每個(gè)州的眾議員人數(shù)與其人口數(shù)量成比例，
meaning that states with large populations have more representatives in the House than those states with small populations.
也就是說人口更多的州在眾議院中比那些人口更少的州擁有更多的眾議員。
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