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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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