很多人都以为，一个人在他五十岁的时候，他们的人生已经开始走下坡路了，可是，我却正好相反。

Many people at fifty think they've already started to go downhill. I actually think the opposite.

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然而对于久坐不动，伴有多种心脏危险因素的五十岁以上的人们，这项测试就是合适的，尤其在他们开始践行养生法之前。

However, this test may be appropriate for sedentary people over age 50 with multiple cardiac risk factors, especially before they begin an exercise regimen.

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我记得通用汽车公司的总裁查理·威尔森在他四十岁到五十岁期间曾经说过，对通用好，也就意味着对美国好。

I remember when Charley Wilson”—the president of G.M. in the forties and fifties—“said, What’s good for G.M. is good for America.

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Now, Ludwig van Beethoven was in his fifties when he was working on his last symphony-- what would prove to be his last symphony-- his Ninth Symphony, and he'd been tinkering with this particular melody all the way back to probably 1803, so it's about twenty years or so.

路德维希·凡·贝多芬在五十多岁时,创作了他最后一首交响乐,后来成为他最后的交响曲,就是他的第九交响曲,他一直在锤炼这段旋律,也许要追溯到一八零三年,所以大概经历了二十个年头

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