英語短文：富翁比以往更快地變富 1

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英語短文：富翁比以往更快地變富 1

The Rich Get Richer Faster than Ever

[1]Britain's richest people have experienced the biggest-ever rise in their wealth, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

[2] Driven by the "new economy of internet and computer entrepreneurs, the wealth of those at the top of the financial tree has increased at an unprecedented rate.

[3] The 12th annual Rich List will show that the collective worth of the country's richest 1,000 people reached nearly --146 billion by January, the cut-off point for the survey. This represented an increase of --31 billion, or 27% , in just 12 months.

[4] Since the survey was compiled, Britain's richest have added billions more to their wealth, thanks to the continuing boom in technology shares on the stock market. This has pushed up the total value of the wealth of the richest 1,000 to a probable -- 160 billion according to Dr Philip Beresford, Britain's acknowledged expert on personal wealth who compiles the Sunday Times Rich List.

[5] The millennium boom exceeds anything in Britain's economic history, including the railway boom of the 1840s and the South Sea bubble of 1720. "It has made Margaret Thatcher's boom seem as sluggish as Edward Heath's three-day week," said Beresford. "We are seeing billions being added to the national wealth every week."

[6] William Rubinstein, professor of modern history at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, confirmed that the growth in wealth was unprecedented. "Almost all of today's wealth has been created since the industrial revolution, but even by those heady standards the current boom is extraordinary," he said.

[7] "There is no large-scale cultural opposition or guilt about making money. In many ways British business attitudes can now challenge the United States."

[1]根據(jù)《星期日泰晤士報(bào)》的財(cái)富排行榜，英國最富有的人們經(jīng)歷了他們的財(cái)富有史以來最大的增長。

[2]受到因特網(wǎng)和計(jì)算機(jī)企業(yè)家們倡導(dǎo)的“新經(jīng)濟(jì)”的驅(qū)使，那些位居財(cái)富之樹頂端的有錢人的財(cái)富以前所未有的速度增長著。

[3]第12次的年度財(cái)富排行榜將顯示：到1月份，也就是調(diào)查的截止日期，英國最富有的 1000人的財(cái)富總和達(dá)到了1460億英鎊。這表明僅在12個(gè)月內(nèi)他們的財(cái)富就增加了310億英鎊，即增長了27%。

[4]自從這個(gè)調(diào)查開始時(shí)起，由于證券市場上技術(shù)股的持續(xù)繁榮，這些最有錢的人的財(cái)富又增加了數(shù)十億。據(jù)《星期日泰晤士報(bào)》財(cái)富排行榜的統(tǒng)計(jì)整理人、英國公認(rèn)的個(gè)人財(cái)富專家菲利浦·貝雷斯福德博士說，這可能使最富有的1000人的財(cái)富總量達(dá)到了1600億英鎊。

[5]這千年之交的繁榮超過了英國經(jīng)濟(jì)史上的任何繁榮時(shí)期，包括19世紀(jì)40年代興修鐵路帶來的繁榮和1720年南海投機(jī)業(yè)的興旺。貝雷斯福德說：“千年之交的繁榮使瑪格麗特·撒切爾執(zhí)政時(shí)期的經(jīng)濟(jì)繁榮相形見絀，看起來就像愛德華·希思的1周工作3天同樣不景氣。我們將目睹國家的財(cái)富以每星期數(shù)十億的速度增加。”