《中英對照讀新聞》Russian billionaires club gets bigger and richer 俄國億萬富豪俱樂部更大更富

◎張其賢

A booming banking sector and stock market is driving an expansion of the Russian billionaire club, with seven new members entering the super-rich rankings over the last year, according to Forbes business magazine and Russian media.

景氣熱絡的銀行業和股市，使俄國億萬富豪俱樂部日益擴大，過去一年有7位新會員躋身超級富豪之列，根據富比世雜誌和俄國媒體報導。

Russia now has 33 billionaires, according to Forbes' annual rankings, up from 27 last year, but minus Yukos oil giant founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was jailed for eight years in Siberia from 2005 on what critics say were politically motivated charges of embezzlement.

根據富比世雜誌的年度排行榜，俄國現在有33位億萬富豪，比去年的27位增加，但是少了石油業鉅子尤克斯公司的創辦人霍多科夫斯基，他從2005年起，在西伯利亞坐8年牢，罪名是盜用公款，批評者說，這些罪名背後有政治動機。

Heading the list is the Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, who shot up from 21st to 11th place in the world rankings with a fortune of 18.2 billion dollars, compared to 13.3 billion dollars last year, Forbes said.

富豪排行榜居首的是，擁有切爾西足球俱樂部的羅曼．亞布拉莫維奇，他今年以182億美元的身價，在世界富豪排行榜上，從去年的第21名（他當時身價133億美元）竄升到今年的第11名，富比世雜誌說。

"Businessmen who created their banks or bought up their shares have considerably increased their wealth," the editor of Forbes' Russian edition, Maxim Kashulinsky, was quoted by Vedomosti business daily as saying. "The wealth of those investing on the stock market has also grown," he said.

「成立其銀行或買下其股票的商界人士，大大增加了他們的財富，」商業日報「記事報」引述富比世雜誌俄文版編輯馬克辛．卡許林斯基的話說。「投資股市者的財富也有增加」，他說。

Microsoft founder Bill Gates retained first place in the world rankings for the 12th staight year, with wealth estimated at 50 billion dollars, up 3.5 billion dollars.

微軟公司創辦人比爾．蓋茲連續第12年保有世界富豪排行榜的榜首寶座，其財富估計有500億美元，比去年增加35億美元。

新聞辭典

booming：景氣驟升的。boom是動詞，指「景氣驟升」，也可以當名詞，指「景氣繁榮」。

shoot up：暴增。例句：The number of journalists and media assitants killed in conflict areas around the world has shot up in recent years.（在世界各地衝突地區遇害的記者和媒體助手人數，近年來暴增。）

retain︰動詞，保有。