张一鸣3500亿身家成中国首富

近日，2024胡润百富榜发布，张一鸣3500亿元身家成中国首富，钟睒睒位列第二，马化腾位列第三。

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1. Which of the following best describes the overall trend in wealth among individuals on the Hurun China Rich List?

A) A consistent increase in wealth among the top-ranking individuals.

B) A decline in the net worth of the majority.

C) Significant growth in wealth for individuals in traditional industries.

D) Stability in wealth levels for most individuals on the list.

无注释原文：

TikTok founder becomes China's richest man

From: BBC

The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China's richest person.

According to a rich list produced by the Hurun Research Institute, Zhang Yiming, is now worth $49.3bn (￡38bn) - 43% more than in 2023.

The 41 year old stepped down from his role in charge of the company in 2021, but is understood to own around 20% of the firm.

TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world.

The US intends to ban TikTok in January 2025 unless ByteDance sells it.

Despite facing that intense pressure in the US, ByteDance's global profit increased by 60% last year, driving up Zhang Yiming's personal fortune.

“Zhang Yiming is the 18th new Number One we have had in China in just 26 years," said head of Hurun Rupert Hoogewerf.

"The US, by comparison, has only four Number Ones: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

"This gives an indication of some of the dynamism in the Chinese economy."

Tech fortunes

Mr Zhang is not the only representative of China's huge tech sector on the list.

Pony Ma, boss of the tech conglomerate, Tencent, is third on the list with an estimated personal wealth amounting to ￡44.4bn.

But their fortunes are not just explained by their companies successes - their rivals have made less in the year.

In fact, only approximately 30% of the people on the list had an increase in their net worth - the rest saw a decline.

“The Hurun China Rich List has shrunk for an unprecedented third year running," said Mr Hoogewerf.

"The number of individuals on the list was down by 12% in the past year to just under 1100 individuals and 25% from the high point of 2021."

He said the data showed it had been a good year for smartphone manufacturers such as Xiaomi, while the green energy market had stumbled.

“Solar panel, lithium battery and EV makers have had a challenging year, as competition intensified, leading to a glut, and the threat of tariffs added to uncertainties," he said.

"Solar panel makers saw their wealth down as much as 80% from the 2021 peak, whilst battery and EV makers were down by half and a quarter respectively."

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含注释全文：

TikTok founder becomes China's richest man

From: BBC

The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China's richest person.

随着TikTok在全球范围内的爆红，其母公司字节跳动（ByteDance）的联合创始人张一鸣（Zhang Yiming）如今已跃居中国首富之位。

surge /sɜːdʒ/ 1）作动词，表示“急剧上升；飞涨；剧增”，英文解释为“If something surges, it increases suddenly and greatly, after being steady or developing only slowly.”举个🌰：The company's profits have surged. 公司的利润激增。

2）表示“涌动，蜂拥向前”，英文解释为“to move quickly and powerfully”举个🌰：An angry crowd surged through the gates of the president's palace. 愤怒的人群涌进了总统府的大门。

3）作名词，表示“剧增”，英文解释为“A surge is a sudden large increase in something that has previously been steady, or has only increased or developed slowly.”举个🌰：An unexpected surge in electrical power caused the computer to crash. 突然出现的电压剧增导致电脑死机。

🎬电影《雷神2：黑暗世界》（Thor: The Dark World）中的台词提到：But she will not survive the amount of energy surging within her. 但她体内涌动的能量太大 她撑不住的。

According to a rich list produced by the Hurun Research Institute, Zhang Yiming, is now worth $49.3bn (￡38bn) - 43% more than in 2023.

根据胡润研究院发布的富豪榜，张一鸣现在的身价为493亿美元（380亿英镑），比2023年增长了43%。

The 41 year old stepped down from his role in charge of the company in 2021, but is understood to own around 20% of the firm.

现年41岁的张一鸣已于2021年卸任，但据了解，他仍持有该公司约20%的股份。

step down等同于step aside，表示“退位”，英文解释为“If someone steps down or steps aside, they resign from an important job or position, often in order to let someone else take their place.”举个🌰：He has decided to step down as captain of the team. 他决定不再当队长。

类似的还有：

📍quit，除了退出，离开的含义，也有：辞去（工作）；辞职，的含义（If you quit, or quit your job, you choose to leave it.）举个🌰：He quit his job as an office boy. 他辞去了办公室勤杂员的工作。

📺美剧《恋爱手册》（A To Z）中的台词提到：Quit my job and then ask him out? 辞职然后约他出去？

📍resign 1）表示“辞职”，英文解释为“If you resign from a job or position, you formally announce that you are leaving it.”举个🌰：He resigned his position last month. 他上个月辞去了他的职位。

2）表示“使屈从”，英文解释为“If you resign yourself to an unpleasant situation or fact, you accept it because you realize that you cannot change it.”举个🌰：Jane and I resigned ourselves to yet another summer without a boat. 简和我将就着又过了一个没有船的夏天。

TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world.

TikTok已成为全球最受欢迎的社交媒体应用之一。

The US intends to ban TikTok in January 2025 unless ByteDance sells it.

美国已表示若字节跳动不出售TikTok，计划在2025年1月将其禁用。

Despite facing that intense pressure in the US, ByteDance's global profit increased by 60% last year, driving up Zhang Yiming's personal fortune.

尽管面临来自美国的巨大压力，字节跳动的全球利润去年仍增长了60%，这使得张一鸣的个人财富大幅增加。

表示“抬高；迫使……上升”，英文解释为“to force a price, value, etc. to go up”

“Zhang Yiming is the 18th new Number One we have had in China in just 26 years," said head of Hurun Rupert Hoogewerf.

“张一鸣是我们在短短26年里中国的第18位首富，”胡润富豪榜创始人鲁珀特·胡格福布（Rupert Hoogewerf）表示。

"The US, by comparison, has only four Number Ones: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

“相比之下，美国只有四位“首富”：比尔·盖茨（Bill Gates）、沃伦·巴菲特（Warren Buffett）、杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）和埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）。

"This gives an indication of some of the dynamism in the Chinese economy."

“这反映出中国经济的活力。”

表示“象征；迹象”，英文解释为“An indication is a sign that suggests, for example, what people are thinking or feeling.”

dynamism /ˈdaɪ.nə.mɪ.zəm/ 表示“活力，精力”，英文解释为“the quality of being dynamic”举个🌰：She has a freshness and dynamism about her. 她浑身洋溢着清新活泼的气息。

Tech fortunes 科技财富

Mr Zhang is not the only representative of China's huge tech sector on the list.

张一鸣并非中国庞大科技行业中唯一上榜的人物。

Pony Ma, boss of the tech conglomerate, Tencent, is third on the list with an estimated personal wealth amounting to ￡44.4bn.

科技巨头腾讯（Tencent）老板马化腾（Pony Ma）位列第三，个人财富估计达444亿英镑。

conglomerate /kənˈɡlɒm.ər.ət/ 表示“联合大企业，企业集团”，英文解释为“a company that owns several smaller businesses whose products or services are usually very different”如：a financial/industrial conglomerate 金融/工业企业集团。

📍词根“-glomer-”来自拉丁语“glomerare”，表示“聚集”。近义词：corporation（公司），常用短语：global conglomerate（全球企业集团）

类似的还有：

📍giant表示“巨头，大公司”，英文解释为“Giant is often used to refer to any large, successful business organization or country.”如：Japanese electronics giant, Sony 日本的电子业巨头——索尼公司。

📍mogul /ˈməʊɡəl/表示“（尤指新闻、影视界的）大人物；大亨”，英文解释为“A mogul is an important, rich, and powerful businessman, especially one in the news, film, or television industry.”如：an international media mogul一位国际传媒大亨。

📍magnate /ˈmæɡneɪt, -nɪt/ 表示“大亨，巨头”，英文解释为“a rich and powerful person in industry or business”。

📍tycoon /taɪˈkuːn/ 表示“巨头，大亨（工商界）”，英文解释为“someone who is successful in business or industry and has a lot of money and power”如：property tycoon 房地产大亨。

📍behemoth /ˈbiːhɪmɒθ/ 表示“巨头（指规模庞大、实力雄厚的公司或机构）”，英文解释为“a very big and powerful company or organization”。

📍titan表示“巨人；巨头”，英文解释为“If you describe someone as a titan of a particular field, you mean that they are very important and powerful or successful in that field.”

1）表示“（数量上）达到，总计”，英文解释为“if figures, sums etc amount to a particular total, they equal that total when they are added together”举个🌰：Time lost through illness amounted to 12 working days. 因疾病而损失的时间总计为12个工作日。

2）表示“等于，相当于”，英文解释为“if an attitude, remark, situation etc amounts to something, it has the same effect”举个🌰：The court's decision amounts to a not guilty verdict. 法庭的裁决等于是宣判无罪。

But their fortunes are not just explained by their companies successes - their rivals have made less in the year.

然而，他们的财富增长不仅仅归因于公司的成功——还有其竞争对手的收入也相对减少。

rival /ˈraɪ.vəl/ 作名词，表示“竞争对手；敌手”，英文解释为“a person, group, etc. competing with others for the same thing or in the same area”

作动词，表示“可与…相媲美，比得上”，英文解释为“to be as good, clever, beautiful, etc. as someone or something else”举个🌰：No computer can rival a human brain for/in complexity. 没有任何计算机比得上人脑复杂。

In fact, only approximately 30% of the people on the list had an increase in their net worth - the rest saw a decline.

事实上，榜单上只有约30%的人财富有所增长，其余富豪的净资产均有所下降。

“The Hurun China Rich List has shrunk for an unprecedented third year running," said Mr Hoogewerf.

“胡润中国富豪榜连续第三年缩水，这是史无前例的，”胡格福布表示。

shrink /ʃrɪŋk/ 表示“（使）缩小，（使）变小”，英文解释为“to become smaller, or to make something smaller”举个🌰：Your sweater will shrink if you wash it at too high a temperature. 用温度过高的水洗毛衣，毛衣会缩水。

unprecedented /ʌnˈpres.ɪ.den.tɪd/ 表示“史无前例的，空前的；绝无仅有的”，英文解释为“never having happened or existed in the past”举个🌰：This century has witnessed environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale. 环境在本世纪遭到了空前的破坏。

词源和词根："un-"是"不"的意思，"precedented"来自拉丁语的"praecedere"，意为"走在前面"。派生词：unprecedentedly，常用短语：unprecedented event 空前的事件。

🎬电影《星运里的错》（The Fault in Our Stars）中的台词提到：You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. 你太忙于做自己 都没有意识到自己是那么的令人心动。

running /ˈrʌn.ɪŋ/ 表示“连续的；持续的”，英文解释为“happening on a particular number of regular occasions”举个🌰：You've been late three days running. 你已经连续3天迟到了。They won the trophy for the third year running. 他们连续3年赢得此奖杯。

"The number of individuals on the list was down by 12% in the past year to just under 1100 individuals and 25% from the high point of 2021."

“上榜人数在过去一年中减少了12%，仅有不到1100人，与2021年高峰期减少了25%。”

He said the data showed it had been a good year for smartphone manufacturers such as Xiaomi, while the green energy market had stumbled.

他指出，数据显示，今年对小米等智能手机制造商来说是一个增长年，而绿色能源行业则面临严峻挑战。

stumble /ˈstʌm.bəl/ 1）作名词，表示“犯错；失足”，英文解释为“a false step, trip, or blunder / the act of stumbling”

2）作动词表示“踉跄；绊脚”，英文解释为“If you stumble, you put your foot down awkwardly while you are walking or running and nearly fall over.”举个🌰：He stumbled and almost fell. 他绊了一下，差点儿摔倒。

3）表示“跌跌撞撞地走，蹒跚而行”，英文解释为“to walk in a way that does not seem controlled”举个🌰：We could hear her stumbling about/around the bedroom in the dark. 我们可以听到她摸黑在卧室里跌跌撞撞地走动。

4）表示“犯错；磕磕巴巴地说，支吾；不顺畅地演奏”，英文解释为“to make a mistake, such as repeating something or pausing for too long, while speaking or playing a piece of music”举个🌰：When the poet stumbled over a line in the middle of a poem, someone in the audience corrected him. 诗人在朗诵一首诗的过程中念错了一句，听众中有人纠正了他。

5）固定搭配：stumble on / across / upon sth，表示“偶然发现（碰见）”，英文解释为“to find or discover something by chance and unexpectedly”举个🌰：Researchers have stumbled across a drug that may help patients with Parkinson's disease. 研究人员偶然发现了一种药物，也许可以治疗帕金森病。

“Solar panel, lithium battery and EV makers have had a challenging year, as competition intensified, leading to a glut, and the threat of tariffs added to uncertainties," he said.

他说：“太阳能电池板、锂电池和电动汽车制造商经历了充满挑战的一年，竞争加剧导致供应过剩，加上关税压力增加了不确定性。”

solar panel /ˌsəʊ.lə ˈpæn.əl/ 表示“太阳能电池板”，英文解释为“a device that changes energy from the sun into electricity”举个🌰：Solar panels are used to power satellites. 太阳能电池板用来给卫星供电。

lithium /ˈlɪθ.i.əm/ 表示“锂”，英文解释为“a chemical element that is a soft, silver-coloured metal”

glut /ɡlʌt/ 表示“供过于求，供应过剩”，英文解释为“a supply of something that is much greater than can be sold or is needed or wanted”举个🌰：The fall in demand for coffee could cause a glut on/in the market. 咖啡需求减少会导致市场供应过剩。

tariff /ˈtærɪf/ 表示“关税”，英文解释为“A tariff is a tax that a government collects on goods coming into a country.”

"Solar panel makers saw their wealth down as much as 80% from the 2021 peak, whilst battery and EV makers were down by half and a quarter respectively."

“太阳能电池板制造商的财富比2021年的高峰期下降了80%之多，而电池和电动汽车制造商的财富则分别下跌了50%和25%。”

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