and so I was used to counting things.

我曾经常清点一些事情

And so one day,because I was writing a book about our village,

当时我正在写一本关于我们村庄的书

political theorist--

政治理论家

The first piece of work is actually science,

实际上 他的第一部著作涉及科学

So, one lesson might be a lesson in sociology.

第一个结论可能与社会学有关

I'll put it in inverted commas.

我给所说的内容加上引号吧

The third thing I was going to report was that

我要讲的第三件事是

sales in the nineteenth century.

19世纪寿险销售情况的著作

Now, more generally

更通俗地说

named Ralf Dahrendorf,

他叫拉尔夫·达伦多夫

as an economist, as an economic historian;

是经济学家 或是经济史学家

So the point is, this is a very

所以说 重点是