In America the wages of the least-paid quartile of workers are growing 70% faster than those at the top.

在美国，工资最低的四分之一工人的工资增长速度比最高工资的工人快70%。

And then they compared the most positive quartile to the least positive quartile.

然后他们比较最积极那类和最不积极的那类。

So here is Cecilia O'Payne from the positive quartile: God started my life off well by bestowing upon me grace of inestimable value.

这一段是积极类里的塞西莉·奥佩恩写的：上帝为我的人生开了一个好头，他恩赐我生命以无尽的价值。

A September 2015 paper showed how the quartile groups that consumed the most sodium had the lowest rates of hypertension, coronary heart disease, and stroke.

2015 年 9 月的一篇论文显示，摄入钠最多的四分位组的高血压、冠心病和中风发病率最低。

In contrast to an upper-middle class family, whose children are likely to go to college, only 9% of children born in the bottom income quartile complete a four-year college degree.

与孩子可能会上大学的中上层家庭相比，收入最低的四分之一出生的孩子中只有 9% 完成了四年制大学学位。

At the age of 85, at the age of 85-and again, this is a looking back, 90% of the most cheerful quartile were alive and just 34% of the least cheerful quartile were alive. This is significant difference.

85岁时，我要重申，她们85岁，是很多年前的事了，最积极那类有90%还活着，而最不积极那类只有34%。两个数据相差很大。

A year ago, I was told I had a form of ovarian cancer and was given two to three years to live - five years, if I'm in the top quartile of patients.

一年前，我被告知我患有一种卵巢癌，并被告知可以再活两到三年——如果我是患者中的前四分之一的话，那就是五年。

In fact, the data from a September 2015 paper funded by the Korea Food Research Institute shows that the quartile groups that consumed the most sodium had the lowest rates of hypertension, coronary heart disease, and stroke.

事实上，2015 年 9 月由韩国食品研究所资助的一篇论文的数据显示，钠摄入最高的四分组的高血压、冠心病和中风的发病率最低。