"The challenge is to keep up the tempo and to continue these policies that have been placed in terms of credit flows being increased to customers and interest rates being maintained at around the ten per cent level,".

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What's tempo in music? Yes, gentleman?

什么是音乐的速度,好的,那位先生

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This is the pulse of music and music theorists ever since the late fifteenth century from music theory Francinus Gafurius on we could go all the way back then have said that the pulse in music is basically at the same tempo as the human pulse which comes out to be about oh, we'll say seventy-two beats if you will, pulses, per minute.

这是音乐的脉搏,从十五世纪晚期到现在的音乐理论家们,像弗朗西斯·加福瑞,我们回到那个年代,那时就曾说过,音乐的律动,和人类的脉搏节奏基本一致,就是说相当于,我们说如果是你的脉搏的话,每分钟七十二下左右

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