当一个人中文讲了几十年后，想到“我们有六个人。”这样的句子，想要不翻译成 “We have six people.”也很难。这样的讲法其实也是没错，但是老美还有另一种讲法来表达总人数是多少：There are six of us.
类似的句型还有像是“How many of you...?”，意思是你们当中有多少人如何如何。例如老师问学生“你们当中有多少人看过鲸鱼”就可以说“How many of you have ever seen whales?”
