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Siam, 1851 – 1910

The same situation viewed from the perspective of the rural population is even more complex. According to the government’s first census of the rural population, taken in 1905, there were about thirty thousand villages in Siam. This was probably a large increase over the figure even two or three decades earlier, during the late 1800s. It is difficult to imagine it now, but Siam’s Central Plain in the late 1800s was nowhere near as densely settled as it is today. There were still forests closely surrounding Bangkok into the last of the nineteenth century, and even at century’s end there were wild elephants and tigers roaming the countryside only twenty or thirty miles away.

请问：This was probably a large increase over the figure even two or three decades earlier, during the late 1800s.     这句话怎么理解呢？不太懂figure指的是什么，还有even在这里的意思是什么呢？

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我明白figure了，但是不太懂后边的even是啥意思，求指点~~

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figure有数字的意思，所以句子的意思是这是一个巨大的人口数字的增长，甚至在一二十年以前，在整个17c末期。

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baxiacandy 发表于 2021-1-18 16:15
figure有数字的意思，所以句子的意思是这是一个巨大的人口数字的增长，甚至在一二十年以前，在整个17c末期。 ...

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