In fact, doctors proved the 4 minutes for the mile was the limit of human ability.

事实上医生证明四分钟跑一英里,是人类能力的极限。

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He writes down this four- to five-minute composition note for note in just one sitting.

他便一口气,逐个音符地,写下了这段四到五分钟的作品

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He was a good runner, top runner, but nowhere near the 4 minutes mark.

也是一名出色的跑手，顶级跑手，但时间远高于四分钟。

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The reason--unless you can take about eight hours to do it--because, the way you're going to do it is you're going to take a train that goes one hour and fifty-eight minutes to Paris, and then you're going to take another train that zips down here in about four hours to Bordeaux, but you're paying by kilometer.

除非你想坐八个小时的火车,因为,你要走的路是,坐上火车,先花一小时五十八分钟去巴黎,然后以很快的速度用四小时到这儿,波尔多,按公里计费

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And until 1954, running the mile in under 4 minutes was considered impossible.

直到1954年，在四分钟以内跑完一英里,被认为是不可能的。

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Roger Bannister said, "It is possible to run in 4 minutes.

他说“四分钟内跑完是可能的。

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And runners proved the doctors and scientists-- proved that they were right and ran the mile in two seconds and 4 minutes, one second, but no runner could run the mile in under 4 minutes, ever since the mile was actually timed-- when they started to time runs.

跑手们证明了医生和科学家…,证明了他们是对的,一英里跑四分钟两秒，四分钟一秒，但没有跑手能少于四分钟，从一英里跑计时以来-,当人们开始计时跑时。

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