This is the absolute number one small talk topic.

这绝对是排名第一位的寒暄话题。

Right. Even if the portion of severe disease stays the same, the absolute number will climb along with these infections.

是的。即便重症比例保值不变，绝对数字也会随感染增加而攀升。

The OECD, a think-tank, predicts that the absolute number of single-parent households will continue to rise in nearly all rich countries.

经济合作与发展组织里的一个诸葛天团预测单亲家庭的比例定会继续在所有发达国家中上升。

Even if the portion of severe disease stays the same, the absolute number will climb along with infections.

即使严重疾病的比例保持不变，绝对数量也会随着感染人数的增加而上升。

Here she tells BBC World Service's, The Why Factor, that her absolute number one storytelling rule is comprehensibility - people need to understand your story.

以下是她告诉 BBC 世界服务节目《The Why Factor》她讲故事的首要法则是可理解性——人们需要理解你的故事。

So even if the portion of infections that need a trip to the hospital stays the same, the absolute number is going to jump up.

因此即便需要住院的感染者的比例不便，其绝对值也会陡然上升。

Here she tells BBC World Service's, The Why Factor that her absolute number one storytelling rule is comprehensibility – people need to understand your story.

她告诉BBC全球服务节目The Why Factor，她讲故事的第一原则绝对是可理解性——人们需要理解你的故事。

The company wouldn't get into specifics, give us absolute numbers, but they did concede today that, yes, the number of bookings is down because of this.

该公司不会透露具体细节，也不会向我们提供绝对数字，但他们今天确实承认，是的，预订数量因此而下降。

“met the relevant Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of the population suffering from undernourishment and the World Food Summit target of halving the absolute numbers of the hungry.”

“实现了将营养不良人口减半的相关千年发展目标和将饥饿绝对人口数量减半的世界粮食峰会目标。”

However, absolute numbers aside, it is incontrovertible that English has become the lingua franca of the world in the fields of business, science, aviation, computing, education, politics and entertainment (and arguably many others).

然而，撇开绝对数字不谈， 英语已经成为商业、科学、航空、计算机、教育、政治和娱乐（以及可以说是许多其他领域）领域的世界通用语是无可争议的。

Instead of measuring the absolute number and wavelength of photons the moon gives off, our eyes and brains compare the relative amounts of light given off by two or more objects within our field of view.

我们的眼睛和大脑不是测量月球发出的光子的绝对数量和波长，而是比较视野内两个或多个物体发出的光的相对量。

In fact, if you look at the absolute numbers, people with larger bodies have faster metabolisms, meaning they burn more calories because larger bodies have more cells, which in turn are doing more to sustain the body.

事实上，如果你看绝对数字，身体越大的人新陈代谢越快， 这意味着他们燃烧更多的卡路里， 因为更大的身体有更多的细胞， 而这些细胞反过来会做更多的事情来维持身体。

Henning Tiemeier: I asked the students to guess how many women die per year in absolute numbers in during childbirth, and the year after, or ask them in the first 42 days, which is often the definition used.

Henning Tiemeier：我让学生们猜猜每年有多少女性在分娩期间和之后的一年中死亡，或者在头 42 天内询问她们的绝对数量，这是通常使用的定义。