时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

   Zillionaire refers to a person who has an extremely large but unspecified amount of money. Zillionaire is an immeasurably wealthy person.


  “超级富翁”指的是有非常多的财富,但数额并不确切的富豪。他们的财富通常不可计数。
  The word millionaire has been used in English to designate 1 a person who is worth a million pounds or dollars, depending on the side of the ocean, since 1786. We borrowed the word straight from the French, whose millions, of course, were in francs.
  “百万富翁”(millionaire)1786年出现在英语词汇中,用来指身价百万英镑或美元的人,货币单位取决于在英国还是美国。这个词来自法语,最初指的是百万法郎。
  Millionaire eventually no longer sufficed 2, and English speakers coined billionaire in 1844. Soon afterwards came multimillionaire, followed by multibillionaire in the early 1900s.
  “百万富翁”终于不足以描述一些人的财富了。1844年,人们创造出“亿万富翁”(billionaire)一词,紧接着“千万富豪”(multimillionaire)出现了,20世纪初,“拥有数十亿资产的富翁“(multibillionaire)一词也出现在了英语中。
  Once zillion was made up as a humorous word for an indeterminately large number (patterned on million and billion), it was only a matter of time before zillionaire came along as a humorous word for a person of seemingly 3 immeasurable wealth.
  后来人们创造出zillion(庞大的数字,无法计算的大数字)一词,这是一个幽默词汇,用来形容不确定的多位数(效仿million和billion)。随后,zillionaire这个形容有着无限财富的大富豪的幽默词汇也出现在词汇中。
  Zillion and zillionaire aren't used in the most formal of writing, but they have found their way into plenty of serious publications 4.
  在最正式的文章中,我们一般不适用zillion和zillionaire两种说法,但它们也出现在非常多的严肃出版物中。

1 designate
v.指明,标明,指出,指派,指定
  • Will you designate the flowers you wish?你能说出你想要的花吗?
  • There are efforts under way to designate the bridge a historic landmark.人们正在努力将这座桥定为历史遗迹。
2 sufficed
足够( suffice的过去式和过去分词 ); 满足…的需要
  • Even manufacture no longer sufficed. 甚至工场手工业也不再能满足需要了。 来自英汉非文学 - 共产党宣言
  • Many skeptical progressives refuse to agree that the foregoing reform sufficed. 许多持怀疑态度的进步分子认为,上述改革是不够的。
3 seemingly
adv.从表面上看起来,似乎是
  • Seemingly,we can do nothing to prevent this from happening.我们似乎没有什么办法阻止这件事发生。
  • For several seemingly interminable seconds no one spoke.有几秒钟没有人讲话,这几秒钟似乎十分漫长。
4 publications
n.发表( publication的名词复数 );公布;出版;出版物
  • The related publications are far too numerous to list individually. 相关出版物太多,没法一一列举。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request. 我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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