or fewer people better.

或者小部分人过得富裕
Indeed, if you pull out the data for the time of the great plague,

如果你抛开瘟疫期的数据不看
population goes down and per capita income goes up.

会发现人口下降人均收入会上升
Now how exact do you think

那么大家是如何看待
our records of incomes in England in 1380 are?

1380年英格兰的收入记录有多精确呢
It's a stretch to try and make this highly quantitative,

尽管使其高度量化的尝试颇为费力
but it's probably not far off.

不过可能差的也并不远
He then--if you then add 1600 to 1800,

如果你加入1600到1800年的数据
you get something different

结果便会有所不同
and you begin to get a surge in population

人口开始快速增长
that does not correspond to a huge loss in per capita income.

但并未造成人均收入的大幅下降
Implicit in that is the idea

这暗示着