福布斯最新全球富豪榜出炉

(He didn't involve, he was a three)
Luisa Kroll and Alison Fass led a team of 30 Forbes reporters who ranked the world’s wealthiest for this week’s billionaire’s issue.

“A billion just isn’t what it used to be. There are now 793 billionaires. Three years ago there were only 476.”

For the twelfth straight year, Microsoft founder¹ Bill Gates is the world’s richest man with 50 billion dollars. Investor² Warren Buffet³ trails in second with a meagre 42 billion. (I think Forbes, a cover, we have...) Newcomers include cover boy Calvin Ayer, a Canadian, who's built a billion-dollar online gambling⁴ empire. And KP Singh, who owns the real estate under many Indian companies that are outsourcing centers. India now has 23 billionaires. Almost half of the world’s billionaires are right here in the US, 371 to be exact. And between them, locked in the bank vaults⁵ are assets worth well over a trillion dollars.

Martha Stewart fell off the list this year. But Donald Trump⁶ is still on it. He’s No. 278,

“Is it easier to make a billion dollars now? There are more billionaires.”

“I think it’s probably easier now than ever before. Yeah.”

“And why is that?”

“Because there are more ways to do it.”

“So I thought I am trying to design something better.”

British vacuum inventor James Dyson has literally⁷ sucked up his fortune.

India’s Tulsi Tanti made his out of thin air by building Asia’s largest wind farm.

“It’s good to be on the list.”

Billionaire Ronald Lauder, heir to his mother Estee Lauder's cosmetics⁸ fortune and founder of New York’s Neue Gallery says, even for him, looking at the list can get depressing.

“Why?”

“Cause some people in their 30s and are worth at least 10 billion dollars and hey…”

The world’s youngest billionaire is now Hind⁹ Hariri, daughter of slain¹⁰ Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. She is only 22.

Around the world, Luisa Kroll says, the biggest fortunes aren't growing as fast.

So we were not gonna have a trillionaire any time soon?

No, I don't think so. I mean we’re going to have a hundred-billionaire any time soon.

49 countries are now home to at least one billionaire. Membership in the club may be spreading. But it’s still not easy to get in the door.

Anthony Mason, CBS News, New York.

1 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

2 investor   

n.投资者，投资人

参考例句：

• My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
• The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。

3 buffet   

n.自助餐；饮食柜台；餐台

参考例句：

• Are you having a sit-down meal or a buffet at the wedding?你想在婚礼中摆桌宴还是搞自助餐？
• Could you tell me what specialties you have for the buffet?你能告诉我你们的自助餐有什么特色菜吗？

4 gambling   

n.赌博；投机

参考例句：

• They have won a lot of money through gambling.他们赌博赢了很多钱。
• The men have been gambling away all night.那些人赌了整整一夜。

5 vaults   

n.拱顶( vault的名词复数 )；地下室；撑物跳高；墓穴

参考例句：

• It was deposited in the vaults of a bank. 它存在一家银行的保险库里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

7 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

8 cosmetics   

n.化妆品

参考例句：

• We sell a wide range of cosmetics at a very reasonable price. 我们以公道的价格出售各种化妆品。
• Cosmetics do not always cover up the deficiencies of nature. 化妆品未能掩饰天生的缺陷。

9 hind   

adj.后面的，后部的

参考例句：

• The animal is able to stand up on its hind limbs.这种动物能够用后肢站立。
• Don't hind her in her studies.不要在学业上扯她后腿。

10 slain   

杀死，宰杀，杀戮( slay的过去分词 )； (slay的过去分词)

参考例句：

• The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
• His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。