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原文：

In fact, in none of the countries where lifelong fertility rates have fallen well below two have they ever returned above it. Depopulation could continue, generation after generation, as long as people look around and decide that small families work best for them, some having no children, some having three or four and many having one or two.

译文：

事实上，那些终身生育率已降至2以下的国家，没有一个国家能把这一数字回到2以上。人们环顾四周，只要人们认为小家庭最适合他们，有些人没有孩子，有些人有三四个孩子，很多人有一两个孩子，那么人口减少可能会一代又一代地持续下去。