There is a current dispute over whether illegal aliens can be included for apportionment purposes.

目前，分配机制是否应涵盖非法移民存在争议。

There were contests over the apportionment of taxes and the quotas of troops for common defense.

税收的分配和共同防御的部队定额发生了争论。

This process is called apportionment, which means deciding how something should be shared among many people or, in this case, among many states.

这种方式被称为国会议员名额的分配，它的意思决定在多个人中某物该如何分配，而在这里，是多个州中。

Of course, this egalitarian theory of creativity ignores everything we know about the apportionment of artistic gifts, the fact that some people are simply better at making things than others.

当然，这种平等主义的创造性理论忽略了我们了解的关于艺术天赋分配的一切，也就是有些人就是比其他人更擅长制造东西这一事实。

When once the dispute over the apportionment of direct taxes among the slave states was settled, it was an easy matter to decide that Congress should have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises.

一旦奴隶州之间关于直接税分配的争论得到解决，就很容易决定国会有权规定和征收税收、关税、进口税和消费税。