and every time I come across one I think,

每次我提到它时我会想
is it just because I'm aware of Rhode Island?

是我刚好想到罗得岛州呢
Is it because I'm thinking about Rhode Island

还是我老是想着罗得岛州
that Rhode Island appears to be there so much?

所以罗得岛州出现次数如此频繁
But it makes me think of--

但它让我想起...
I got my undergraduate degree at Pomona College in California,

我在加利福尼亚的波莫纳大学拿到学士学位
and Pomona has a thing about the number forty-seven,

波莫纳钟情于数字四十七
which they think appears everywhere, right?

他们让这数字出现在每个角落
Everything is forty-seven, so when you go to Pomona,

所有都是四十七因此当你到波莫纳
it's like the magic of forty-seven constantly being talked about.

就像四十七的魔法不断地出现
You add letters up to various things,

无论你在数什么
and it always equals -- ooh!--forty-seven,

最后总是等于...哇...四十七