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- a fact or piece of data obtained from a study of a large quantity of numerical data统计数据：
the statistics show that the crime rate has increased.
统计数据表明犯罪率上升了。
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- an event or person regarded as no more than such a piece of data (used to suggest an inappropriately impersonal approach)统计量（指被视为统计数据的人或事）：
he was just another statistic.
他不过是另一个统计量而已。
- another term for STATISTICAL.
词源
late 18th cent.: from German statistisch (adjective), Statistik (noun).