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Mr. Hoogewerf said the actual number of dollar billionaires could be higher than estimated.

胡润说，实际的以美元衡量的亿万富豪比估计的要多。

Those that do become billionaires seem to do it through a mixture of ingenuity, intelligence and timing, or they just inherit it.

这些幸运儿似乎要综合得到智力、创造力和机遇的眷顾，或者仅仅是因为继承了这么多的财产。

Like other billionaires before him, Bill and his wife Melinda Gates are working hard to give much of the money away to charity .

就如同在他之前出现的亿万富豪，比尔和他的太太美琳达·盖茨很努力地把钱送给慈善机构。

If you were one of the 1, 011 billionaires in the world, what would you do with all that money?

如果有朝一日能够跻身为全球1011个亿万富翁中的一员，你将如何运用手中的财富？

In the U. S. , Gates and Buffett are working to persuade fellow billionaires to give at least half their wealth to charity.

在美国，盖茨和巴菲特致力于劝说那些亿万富翁朋友们至少捐出一半的财产给慈善机构。

Hoogewerf said the actual number of dollar billionaires could be higher than estimated.

胡润称，身家10亿美元以上的实际富豪人数可能比预计的还要多。

Just a few billionaires getting together for drinks and dinner and a friendly chat about how to promote charitable giving.

只是一些亿万富翁在一起聚聚餐，友好地交流一下如何促进慈善捐助罢了。

Chartering a professionally crewed yacht costs up to a million dollars a week, so some billionaires prefer to buy their own.

包租一艘配备专业船员的游艇，每周的费用高达100万美元，因此一些亿万富翁宁愿自己买一艘。

Consider the case of BP (BP), which thought its partnership with a group of Russian billionaires, TNK-BP, was a textbook joint venture.

考虑到英国石油的案子，它以为它和由一群俄罗斯亿万富翁组成的秋明石油集团的合作关系是经典的教科书式的合资企业。

None of this has stopped companies from trying to make a profit from counting the un-countable Chinese billionaires.

但这都未能阻止一系列公司试图通过统计中国亿万富翁的数量这项不可能完成的工作来获利。

Were he alive today, Jesus would be leading the campaign to crack down on tax-dodging billionaires and multinational corporations.

如果耶稣活到今天，他一定会开展打击逃税的亿万富豪和跨国公司的运动。

John Paul Getty, one of the world's first billionaires, once said: "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights. "

全球首批亿万富豪之一的约翰·保罗·盖蒂（JohnPaulGetty）曾说：“温顺者终将继承地球，但他们拿不到矿产权利。”

Consistent with the rest of the population, more American billionaires and near-billionaires were born in the fall than in any other season.

与其他人一样，美国的亿万富翁或是近似亿万富翁大都出生在秋天。

All those new billionaires, starting out with little or nothing, working hard and riding a great idea to vast wealth.

很多新入榜的亿万富翁都是白手起家，辛勤劳作，在实现自己伟大梦想的过程中积累起巨大的财富。

Incomes are the other way around: thanks to a few billionaires, most people earn less than the average.

收入则沿着另一个方向变化：因为一些亿万富翁的存在，大多数人的收入低于平均水平。

U. S. billionaires have been out of favor with the public and politicians since the 2008 financial collapse.

自从2008年金融海啸开始，美国巨富们在公众和政客心中的形象就不大好。

Less than a year ago, Russian and Gulf billionaires were paying the full asking price for their new superyachts and the fittings.

不到一年前，俄罗斯和海湾国家的亿万富翁们按开价全额付款，购买全新的超级游艇和配件。

Quite why private equity billionaires pay lower rates of tax than their cleaning ladies do on their wages has long been a puzzle.

长久以来，私人股本亿万富翁的税率为什么比清洁女工缴纳的税率还要低，这一直是个谜。

Reform, however, appears to have come too late to persuade the current generation of young billionaires to educate their kids at home.

但似乎现在进行改革为时已晚，已经不能说服当代的少壮派亿万富豪让孩子留在国内读书。

They can become Billionaires the honest way but then they get greedy and like this guy, end up in jail or get beheaded.

他们以最诚实的方式成为了亿万富翁，但随后就像这家伙一样贪得无厌，最终进了监狱或被枪毙。