As for the over-forties, some have strained their muscles by pulling for eight or ten years and are content now to take second place, in the growing awareness that sooner or later they will keel over and die in the road.

• 那四十以上的人，有的是已拉了十年八年的车，筋肉的衰损使他们甘居人后，他们渐渐知道早晚是一个跟头会死在马路上。