magnate
magnate 英 [ˈmægneɪt] 美 [ˈmæɡˌnet, -nɪt]
n. 巨头；大资本家；要人；富豪；……大王
名词复数:magnates
- If you’re a hugely successful businessperson, particularly if you’ve cornered the market in a specific area, you’re a magnate. Magnates are often larger-than-life characters, like that oil tycoon who wears a cowboy hat with his tuxedo.
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- n. 巨头；大资本家；要人；富豪；……大王
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1. The 62-year-old self-made fishing magnate John Risley built up a billion pound fortune after starting off with one small lobster shop in Canada in 1976.
据悉，现年62岁白手起家的渔业巨头里斯雷1976年在加拿大开了一家小龙虾店，并就此积聚起上亿英镑的财富。
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2. It looks as if Anish Kapoor will be let loose on the site of the London 2012 Olympics at Stratford, east London, to design a gargantuan tower sponsored by steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal.
看来我们似乎要放任安尼施·卡普尔自由的在东伦敦斯坦福德2012伦敦奥运会场址上设计一座巨大高塔，由钢铁巨头拉克希米·米塔尔赞助。
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3. Eike, as the minerals magnate is known in Brazil, could easily afford to give us this joyride.
艾克，闻名全巴西的矿石巨头，带着我们这样兜风对他来说就是九牛一毛。
- magnate (n.) mid-15c., "great man, noble, man of wealth," from Late Latin magnates, plural of magnas "great person, nobleman," from Latin magnus "great, large, big" (of size), "abundant" (of quantity), "great, considerable" (of value), "strong, powerful" (of force); of persons, "elder, aged," also, figuratively, "great, mighty, grand, important," from suffixed form of PIE root *meg- "great."
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