里约奥运已经开幕,各国的观众除了选择自己感兴趣的项目看比赛以外,还会格外关注自己国家在奖牌榜上的表现。在最近几届夏季奥运会上,中国、美国和俄罗斯一直在前三的位置上争来争去,其中,美国夺得第一的次数最多。
不过,如果我们不看奖牌总数,而是根据各国的人均奖牌数来排名的话。结果可能就完全不一样了。
There are no prizes for knowing that the US has won more Olympic medals than any other country since the first modern summer games were held in 1896.
自1896年第一届现代夏季奥运会举办以来,美国队获得的奖牌总数比其他国家都要多。这是人尽皆知的事实。
Kudos is due, however, to those who are able to name Finland as having won the most medals per Games contested relative to the country’s population size.
而能够根据国家人口数计算出每届奥运会的人均奖牌数,使得芬兰登上榜首的位置,这就值得说一说了。
To work out how well each country fared, we took the number of medals won by each – in Finland’s case 303 – and divided it by the number of summer Olympics competed in to get the average number of medals won. We then calculated the medal haul against each country’s 2017 population.
要计算出每个国家的人均奖牌数,我们先用每个国家获得的奖牌总数除以该国参加过的夏季奥运会次数,这样就得出了该国每次奥运会的平均奖牌数。然后,我们再用这个平均奖牌数除以该国2017年的人口总数。
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