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Good morning, you're with BBC Newsround

大家早上好，欢迎收看 BBC 少儿新闻《Newsround》

this Thursday

本周四的节目

what a wet week it's been so far

这周到现在天天下雨

let us brighten up your day with a bit of this

接下来的内容能让你心情变好

find

来看看

out how far this man can hold his breath underwater

这名男子水下憋气能憋多久

and it's not twins but quadruplets

还有不是双胞胎，是四胞胎

why people in Devon are celebrating an exciting birth

德文郡民众为何为新出生的宝宝庆祝

okay but first

好了，不过首先

let's head to India

我们先去印度看看

where more than a billion people are making history

那里超10亿人正在创造历史

by taking part

他们正在参与

in the world's biggest census or survey

全球最大规模的人口普查

they'll answer a whole range of questions

他们要回答一系列问题

like what food do they eat

比如常吃什么食物

if they own a toilet

家里有没有厕所

and even questions about the gadgets they own

还有拥有哪些电子设备

but what is a census and how does it work

但什么是人口普查？怎么运作的？

BBC correspondent

BBC记者

Samira Hussain sent Newsround this special report

BBC 记者 Samira Hussain 为《Newsround》发回特别报道

Hi, Newsround

Newsround 小观众好

I'm Samira Hussain

我是 Samira Hussain

a BBC correspondent based in Delhi India

是BBC驻印度德里的记者

here we are taking part in a census

现在我们这里正在进行人口普查

that is taking place

这次普查覆盖

across the whole country

整个国家

but what is the census really

但人口普查到底是什么？

imagine putting all of your school

想象一下把你们学校所有人

in a playground like this

都集中到这样的操场上

and counting them and asking them questions

点数人数，再问他们一些问题

this is exactly what a census does

人口普查就是干这个的

but for a whole country and over a billion people

只不过是面向全国十多亿人

that's a lot of counting

统计量可太大了

I am here to collect household

我来是为了收集住户

information for my official census book

信息，录入官方普查册

can you cooperate

能配合一下吗？

3,000,000 officials like this

像这样的普查员有300万名

will spend an entire year counting

要花一整年时间统计

every single person in India

印度的每一位公民

but how do you count those many people

但这么多人要怎么统计呢？

let's find out

我们一起看看

second floor passport

二楼，麻烦出示下证件

manish and Sutra are both census

马尼什和苏特拉都是人口普查

officials it is their job

工作人员，他们的职责是

to get people to take part in the census

动员民众参与人口普查

we go to people's homes and we talk to them

我们上门和民众沟通

we collect their data and enter it on the application

收集信息录入到应用程序里

in one day we cover almost 20 to 30 homes

一天差不多要跑20到30户

I go house to house door to door to do my work

我挨家挨户上门开展工作

I usually start my work in the evening

我一般晚上开始工作

because it is too hot

因为太热了

during daytime

白天的时候

there are 34 questions given in my tab

我的平板上有34个问题

that are regarding census

都是关于人口普查的

this is your own house

这是你自己的房子

these questions include things such as age

问题包括年龄等信息

religion and occupation

宗教信仰和职业

as well as things like

还有比如

the household's main source of drinking water

家庭主要饮用水来源

and access to a toilet

以及厕所使用情况

the census data

人口普查数据

will help to count the number of people in the country

用于统计全国人口数量

as well as help the government plan policies

还能帮政府规划政策

and allocate resources

分配资源

and now that we've learned all about this

现在我们都了解清楚了

let's leave them to it because they have a long year

我们就不打扰了，他们还有漫长的一年

ahead of them and a very important job to do bye

工作要做，任务很重，再见

okay another world first

好的，又一项世界第一

now a professional

近日一名职业

diver has managed to swim the length of

潜水员成功游完了

5 swimming pools

5个泳池的长度

underwater without comi