Merckle began small, taking over a family company with just 80employees in 1967.
1967年，默克勒接手只有80人的家族小企业。
Mr Merckle is thought to have lost some euro400m ($550m), an amount he had been trying to raise in recent weeks from a consortium of banks.
据信默克尔先生损失了40亿欧元（折合55亿美元），最近几周他在银行财团间奔走筹集这笔巨款。
The very wealthy are usually celebrated during their lifetimes and then quickly forgotten in death. In this, as in many other respects, Adolf Merckle was an exception.
大富豪们通常都是生前轰轰烈烈，死后冷冷清清，阿道夫·默克尔在这方面如同其他许多方面一样，都是个例外。
Those include Germany's fifth richest man, Adolf Merckle, who in January threw himself under a train in an act his family blamed on his company's "desperate situation".
其中包括在一月份卧轨自杀的德国第五富豪adolf Merckle。他的家人称其因为公司的绝境而自杀。
Crushed by watching his life's work slip through his fingers, Adolf Merckle, the 74-year-old Swabian billionaire, walked out into the bitter cold Monday night and threw himself under a speeding train.
由于不堪目睹自己一生心血付诸东流，七十四岁的施瓦本富豪阿道夫·默克在周一夜晚的严寒中，把自己投向飞奔的列车轮下。
Crushed by watching his life's work slip through his fingers, Adolf Merckle, the 74-year-old Swabian billionaire, walked out into the bitter cold Monday night and threw himself under a speeding train.
由于不堪目睹自己一生心血付诸东流，七十四岁的施瓦本富豪阿道夫·默克在周一夜晚的严寒中，把自己投向飞奔的列车轮下。
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