The great wealth taken from the gold and silver mines was usually invested in other businesses: shipping,railroads,factories, stores,land companies.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

It's this kind of wealth that allow them to fight this long, hard war of independence, which they finally win.

这些所带来的财富,就成了他们为之奋斗的原动力,使得他们在艰苦的独立战争中获得胜利

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

so, in that sense, that is intended to be more equally distributive in terms of wealth.

所以，这样一来，目的是更公平地分配财富。

扶贫政策 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

That means that a person can rise from poverty to wealth and success if he or she works hard.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

They provided a service to society and society responded by somehow they got their wealth, so I think that -- So be concrete.

他们为社会提供了服务,作为回报，社会让他们以某种方式变富，所以我认为-,所以具体来说。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Space scientists have collected a wealth of information from spacecraft that have orbited,landed on and dug into the Martian surface.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Wealth property he tells us exists for the sake of virtue not virtue for the sake of wealth.

他告诉我们，财富，财产,是为了德行而存在,并非德行为了财富而存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But the pictures that he and his photographers made left a wealth of history for all future generations to see.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

He held a royal domain that belonged directly to him, which was very significant in size and wealth.

他直接拥有着,幅员辽阔,物产富饶的王国领土

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

This year's Forbes magazine list of the world's richest people estimated her wealth at almost two and a half billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

At the same time, of course, as wealth grows, the inequality in wealth grows too.

同时,当然,财富增长,贫富差距也在不断拉大

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

So don't be tempted--Moses later warns the Israelites -don't be tempted to say to yourselves , "My own power and the might of my own hand have won this wealth for me," or again, to say in Deuteronomy 9:4, "The Lord has enabled us to possess this land because of our virtues."

不要被引诱，摩西后来警告以色列人,不要擅自妄称，凭借我的力量，我的能力,我得到了这货财，《申命记》第9章4节中又说，耶和华将我领进来得这地是因我的义“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

There was a new effort to build wealth from the bottom up, rather than from the top down.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

Last year, the SEC put out a proposal that -it's getting too easy to be an accredited investor -so they put out a proposal that we raise the wealth level to $2.5 million.

去年证交会发布了一项提议,鉴于合格投资者的门槛较低,因此他们提议,把准入门槛提高到250万美元

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The couple stared. "My lady has huge wealth", continued the messenger, "But in one thing she is poor.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

because it build, you know, you get investing opportunities and companies grow and wealth grows.

因为它制造，给予你投资机会，而公司和财富都会增长。

研究美国经济 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Alaska's wealth in oil, natural gas,trees,fish and animal skins makes its purchase one of the greatest deals any country ever made for territory.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

What he shows-- Daniel Kahneman he and others including Daniel Kahneman, Nobel prize winner-- show is that wealth matters very little to our levels of wellbeing.

他的研究显示…,他和其他人，包括诺奖得主-,表明财富对幸福水平的影响很小。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

New York,which always thinks big, was called The Empire State because of its natural wealth.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Do you think that wealth always brings happiness?

你觉得财富必然带来幸福吗？

比佛利山庄的购物街 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The company is not an investment vehicle for the government like a sovereign wealth fund.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

United States is among the most inegalitarian society as far as the distribution of wealth of all the advanced democracies.

在所有发达的民主国家之中,美国财富分配不均的问题最为严重。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

But he says they also act as representations of a country's wealth and geopolitical power.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

The richest one percent in both sections, put another way, held twenty-seven percent of all the wealth.

南北两方的最富有的百分之一人口,换句话说,占有总体财富的百分之二十七

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle,or the ship;

VOA: special.2009.11.23

But at some point you have to understand that the benefits of redistribution of wealth don't justify the initial violation of the property right.

但某种程度上说，你得明白,财富重新分配的好处,并不能为侵犯财产权正名。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Mister Veblen argued that people gathered wealth for the purpose of "conspicuous consumption."

VOA: special.2011.05.01

The cave of Mammon is the home of Mammon, the money god, who stores in his cave all of the wealth and all of the honor that human beings spend so much energy striving for.

贪欲之神的洞穴是他的住所，这位掌管钱财的神在他的洞里藏着,人类耗费大量精力想要求得的,所有财富和荣誉。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Incidentally, I mentioned this last time-- I was talking about-- I was philosophizing about wealth and I asked what are you going to do with a billion dollars.

顺便提一句,最后提一次,我在讲,我在探讨财富,我在讲如果你有一百万美元你会做什么

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选