And that select 1% has looked in envy at the Croesus-like 0.1% at the very top of the tree.

而这精选的1%则羡慕地仰望这金字塔顶端0.1%的超级富豪。

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Now Croesus had two sons, of whom one was deficient, seeing that hewas deaf and dumb, while the other far surpassed his companions of thesame age in all things: and the name of this last was Atys.

当时克利萨斯有两个儿子，其中一个有缺陷，是个聋哑人，而另外一个则在所有方面都远远超过了其他所有的同龄伙伴，他的名字叫阿提斯。

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Croesus asked Solon to tell him who is the happiest, the most fortunate--both of those things contained in the words he uses--that he had ever seen.

克罗伊斯问梭伦,谁是你见过的,最幸福,最幸运的人,他用了一个词来表示这两重意思

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So on goes the visit to Croesus.

继续说他拜访克罗伊斯的故事

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Well, the most famous early on, King Croesus of Lydia, the richest man in the world,you've heard all about him, decides it would be a nice thing to conquer the Persian Empire, his neighbor to the east.

最著名的就是吕底亚的克洛伊索斯国王,之前已经讲过,他是世上最富有的人,他觉得征服他东方的邻居,波斯帝国,是一个不错的事

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After Google's IPO, some of its employees left the firm with Croesus-like sums of money raised by selling their stakes.

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Croesus pulled the deal last year due to weak markets.

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Croesus blames the somnambulant experts on Wall Street, who are supposed to know that GE is half a lending company and thus must be compromised by ruinous credit markets.

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