rich

• adj. 富有的；肥沃的；昂贵的
• n. (Rich)人名；(丹)里克；(捷)里赫；(英、西)里奇；(葡、法)里什；

来自中古英语 riche,有权的，有钱的，来自古英语 rice,有权的，来自 PIE*reg,统治，管理， 词源同 regal,regulate.引申诸相关比喻义。词义的演变体现了权钱的关系。

1. possessing material wealth;

"her father is extremely rich"

"many fond hopes are pinned on rich uncles"

2. having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources);

"blessed with a land rich in minerals"

"rich in ideas"

"rich with cultural interest"

3. of great worth or quality;

"a rich collection of antiques"

4. marked by great fruitfulness;

"fertile farmland"

"a fat land"

"a productive vineyard"

"rich soil"

5. strong; intense;

"deep purple"

"a rich red"

6. very productive;

"rich seams of coal"

7. high in mineral content; having a a high proportion of fuel to air;

"a rich vein of copper", "a rich gas mixture"

8. suggestive of or characterized by great expense;

"a rich display"

9. marked by richness and fullness of flavor;

"a rich ruby port"

"full-bodied wines"

"a robust claret"

"the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee"

10. highly seasoned or containing large amounts of choice ingredients such as butter or sugar or eggs;

"kept gorging on rich foods"

"rich pastries"

"rich eggnogg"

11. pleasantly full and mellow;

"a rich tenor voice"

12. affording an abundant supply;

"had ample food for the party"

"copious provisions"

"food is plentiful"

"a plenteous grape harvest"

"a rich supply"

rich

rich: [OE] The original meaning of rich was ‘mighty, noble’. It goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *reg- ‘move in a straight line’, hence ‘direct’, hence ‘rule’, source of English right, Latin rēx ‘king’ (ancestor of English regal, royal, etc), and Latin regere ‘rule’ (ancestor of English regent, regiment, etc).

The Old Celtic equivalent of Latin rēx was rīx ‘king’. This was borrowed into prehistoric Germanic, where it subsequently evolved into German reich, Dutch rijk, Swedish rik, Danish rig, and English rich. (It was also taken over by the Romance languages, giving French riche, Italian ricco, etc.) The sense ‘mighty, noble’ survived in English into the late Middle Ages, but ‘wealthy’ had started to develop in Germanic, and eventually saw off ‘mighty’.
=> regal, right, royal

rich (adj.)

Old English rice "strong, powerful; great, mighty; of high rank," in later Old English "wealthy," from Proto-Germanic *rikijaz (cognates: Old Norse rikr, Swedish rik, Danish rig, Old Frisian rike "wealthy, mighty," Dutch rijk, Old High German rihhi "ruler, powerful, rich," German reich "rich," Gothic reiks "ruler, powerful, rich"), borrowed from a Celtic source akin to Gaulish *rix, Old Irish ri (genitive rig) "king," from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," hence, "direct, rule" (see rex).

The form of the word was influenced in Middle English by Old French riche "wealthy, magnificent, sumptuous," which is, with Spanish rico, Italian ricco, from Frankish *riki "powerful," or some other cognate Germanic source.

Old English also had a noun, rice "rule, reign, power, might; authority; empire." The evolution of the word reflects a connection between wealth and power in the ancient world. Of food and colors, from early 14c.; of sounds, from 1590s. Sense of "entertaining, amusing" is recorded from 1760. The noun meaning "the wealthy" was in Old English.

rich, wealthy

这两个形容词均有"富的，富裕的"之意。

rich： 普通用词，语气强烈，指拥有大量金钱及财产。

wealthy： 普通用词，语气不如rich强烈，多指经济上富裕、社会地位稳固，很有身份，即有钱有势。

They are cherished by the rich.

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The millennials ( ' , 千禧一代) who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school onwards to work in groups.

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The platforms that are most effective turn employees' ordinary job tasks into part of a rich adventure narrative.

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You only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub ( ' , 中心 ): rich people and nerds ( ' , 痴迷科研 的人 ).

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Within the US, towns have become startup hubs if and only if they have both rich people and nerds.

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Whereas Pittsburgh has the opposite problem: plenty of nerds, but no rich people.

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They are rich enough to invest in nerds.

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Surely, the American ideal of second chances should not be reserved only for the rich and powerful.

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Startup investors are a distinct type of rich people.

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Rich people don't want to live in Pittsburgh or Ithaca.

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Its location is not as attractive to rich people.

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It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it's likely that only the richest people do.

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Few startups happen in Miami, for example, because although it's full of rich people, it has few nerds.

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Do you really need the rich people? Wouldn't it work to have the government invest in the nerds? No, it would not.

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Average people probably sleep less than the rich.

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He calls Inkling a platform for publishers to build rich multimedia content from the ground up, with a heavy emphasis on real-world functionality.

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So why not limit the density of food outlets, particularly ones that sell food rich in empty calories

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His rich knowledge as a computer scientist and electronic engineer.

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Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases.

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How rich and poor regions can share responsibility in curbing global warming

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How rich countries can better help poor regions reduce climate hazards.

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How did Hetty Green become rich overnight?

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She became one of the richest and most hated women in the world.

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Few startups happen in Miami, for example, because although it's full of rich people, it has few nerds.

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Most urban Africans work for a small minority of the rich, who tend to be involved in either cronyish businesses or politics.

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Over the centuries, Etna's lower slopes have been shaped by human hands to take advantage of rich soils for growing grapes, apples and nuts.

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rich people don't want to live in Pittsburgh or Ithaca.

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The "millennials" who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school on wards to work in groups.

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Whereas Pittsburgh has the opposite probleplenty of nerds, but no rich people.

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within the US, towns have become startup hubs if and only if they have both rich people and nerds.

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You only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds.

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While rich parents are more concerned with their children's psychological well-being, poor parents are more worried about their children's safety.

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The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.

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The increasing differences in child rearing between rich and poor families reflect growing social inequality.

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American parents, whether rich or poor, have similar expectations of their children despite different ways of parenting.

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This view assumes that rich societies will invest in environmental care.

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Poor countries will have to bear the cost for rich nations' economic development.

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In other words, poor and rich both over-exploit the natural world, but for different reasons.

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Examples show that both rich and poor countries exploited the environment for economic progress.

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Clearly, richer societies are able to provide environmental improvements which lie well beyond the reach of poorer communities.

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But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling ( ' , 大量消耗) transport.

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But is this right? Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.

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As countries become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.

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And the World Resources Institute ( ' , WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.

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A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic example being climate change.

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It is estimated that Antarctica boasts of the richest reserves of fresh water on earth.

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Throughout these series, you will learn more about the profession, the necessary steps to get a social work degree, the rich history of social work and many ways that social workers help others.

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have placed religious beliefs above party politicshave bridged the gap between the rich and the pooroffer poor children more chances to climb the social laddersuffer from higher levels of racial and economic segregationFamily structure.

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It should not be confined to the rich only.

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It may discourage rich people from space travel.

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Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

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For all the new attention devoted to the 1 percent, a new dataset from the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard and Berkeley suggests that, if we care about upward mobility overall, we're vastly exaggerating the dangers of the rich-poor gap.

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By sanctioning this watered-down version of college, universities are catering to the social and educational needs of wealthy students at the expense of others who won't enjoy the financial backing or social connections of richer students once they graduate.

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True, not all U.S.students can match theperformance of their foreign counterparts, but the American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential.

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It's a "spoken" language that is getting richer and more complex by the year.

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Private spaceflight could lie within reach of rich civilians in a few years.

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Despite the ease with which the rich can acquire almost anything they desire, they are just as likely to be unhappy as the middle classes

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The novelist Edward St Aubyn has a narrator remark of the very rich that, "not having to consider affordability, their desires rambled on like unstoppable bores, relentless (持续不断的) and whimsical（反复无常的）at the same time.

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But a bigger problem may be that poor high schools often send their students to colleges for which they are "undermatched": they could get into more elite, richer schools, but instead go to community colleges and low-rated state schools that lack the resources to help them.

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Governments in rich countries now accept that their pension and health-care promises will soon become unaffordable, and many of them have embarked on reforms, but so far only timidly.

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Many developing countries have lots of young people in need of jobs; many rich countries need helping hands that will boost tax revenues and keep up economic growth

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But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones.

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Public opinion polls show that people in most rich countries already think that immigration is too high

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Modern urban life in rich countries is not well adapted to large families.

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Why do many women in rich countries compromise by having only one child

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He seems to suggest the poor are robbing the rich.

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In very literary styles, the newly resurfaced manuscripts offered a rich stock of African-American culture,recreating among other things the early days of slavery and the importance of religion to the slaves

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The rich are opposed to social welfare.

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A rich stock of manuscripts left by historical figures

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Readers will feel they know John Muir after reading his story and may catch his passion for preserving the riches of our land.

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And the World Resources Institute WR in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; It also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer p

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But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling t

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Kwanzaa is a cultural festival during which African- Americans celebrate and reflect upon their rich heritage as the products of two worlds.

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My idea was to photograph this beautiful and very unique coastline, rich in history, before it's too late—as a last witness.

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Satellites used to be the exclusive playthings of rich governments and wealthy corporations.

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Smartphones offer new tools for achieving these ambitions, providing rich data about everyday behaviors in a variety of contexts.

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So as a result, there are fewer listeners of Jazz, which is a great shame because it's an incredibly rich genre.

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So they are likely to remain rich peopled playthings rather than practical transport solutions for the masses.

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That was confirmed in the early 1990s by the American Magellan orbiter which used radar to peer through the planet's thick clouds and mapped out a rich, varied and dynamic surface.

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The resulting steel appears to achieve a combination of strength and toughness that is comparable to that of modern steels that are very rich in alloy content and, therefore, very expensive.

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These days, though, the divide between rich and poor is greater than it has ever been.

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Thus, our picture of Venus at around the time life was getting started on Earth is one of warm oceans, probably rich with organic molecules, splashing around rocky shores and volcanic vents.

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You'll live in a big house in Hollywood, go to the Oscars every year—and win! You'll be rich and famous.

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A railway link to Amsterdam in 1874 attracted rich traders from Amsterdam to Hilversum.

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About 100 of these stayed rich men for the rest of their lives.

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Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades.

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Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.

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But no matter how rich they were, Dawson was never comfortable.

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Even more worryingly, the fascination with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the "digital divide" between the rich countries and the poor countries.

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For western designers, China and its rich culture have long been an inspiration for western creativity.

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Nearpod is a software program that creates a rich context for students to learn vocabulary.

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Of the first 20, 000 people who dug for gold, 4, 000 got rich.

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One out of five people got rich.

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Papa, as a son of a dirt-poor farmer, left school early and went to work in a factory, for education was for the rich then.

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Rich countries gain more from powerful Nifio, on balance, than they lose.

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Rich countries' gains are greater than their losses.

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She had rich imagination and she was brave.

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The fascination with the ict information and communication technology revolution, represented by the Internet, has made some rich countries wrongly conclude that making things is so " yesterday " that they should try to live on ideas.

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The total rise in agricultural incomes in rich countries is greater than the fall in poor ones.

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They were popular among the rich.

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In many rich countries average wages in the state sector are higher than in the private one.

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The Nobels were, of course, themselves set up by a very rich individual who had decided what he wanted to do with his own money.

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This is a lesson that rich countries can learn : When GDP is no longer regarded as the sole measure of a country’s success, the world looks very different.

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The rich own the robots, so they will be fine.

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At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area.

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This is a lesson that rich countries can learn: When GDP is no longer regarded as the sole measure of a country's success, the world looks very different.

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Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people.

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one of the richest women in the world

世界上最富有的女人之一

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Nobody gets rich from writing nowadays.

如今没有人能靠写作致富。

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(slang)to be filthy/stinking (= extremely) rich

富得流油

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It's a favourite resort for the rich and famous.

这是富人和名流最喜欢去度假的地方。

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the richest countries/economies/nations

最富有的国家 / 经济体 / 国家

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the region's rich history and culture

这个地区丰富多彩的历史和文化

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You're going to be a very rich man...

你将会成为一个非常有钱的人。

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Their one aim in life is to get rich...

他们人生的一个目标就是要变成有钱人。

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An Olympic gold medal can lead to untold riches for an athlete...

一枚奥运金牌能给运动员带来无尽的财富。

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Some people want fame or riches — I just wanted a baby.

有人希望得到名望，有人希望获得财富——我只想要个孩子。

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There is hunger in many parts of the world, even in rich countries.

世界上很多地方，甚至在富有的国家里，都有人忍饥挨饿。

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...Russia's vast natural riches.

俄罗斯丰富的自然资源

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...the oil riches of the Middle East.

中东的石油资源

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Liver and kidney are particularly rich in vitamin A...

肝脏和肾脏的维生素A含量尤其丰富。

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Fish is a rich source of protein.

鱼肉富含蛋白质。

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...the hearty, rich foods of Gascony...

加斯科涅丰盛而油腻的食物

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Additional cream would make it too rich.

再加奶油会让它过于油腻。

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Farmers grow rice in the rich soil.

农民们在肥沃的土地上种植稻子。

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...the country's rich deposits of the metal, lithium.

这个国家丰富的锂金属矿藏

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The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality...

导演发现了一个丰富的情感源泉。

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My collection of Victorian literature turned out to be a rich and often hilarious source of information.

我收藏的维多利亚时代的文学作品竟成了一个资源丰富的信息宝库，而且内容常常令人捧腹。

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...a rich and luxuriously perfumed bath essence.

香味浓郁的沐浴香精

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...an attractive, glossy rich red colour.

迷人而富有光泽的艳红色

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A rich and varied cultural life is essential for this couple.

丰富多样的文化生活对这对夫妇而言至关重要。

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...the rich history of the island...

这个岛屿灿烂的历史

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Visitors can view a rich and colorful array of aquatic plants and animals...

游客们可以看到一系列各种各样、色彩斑斓的水生动植物。

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Australia has a rich cultural mix.

澳大利亚拥有丰富多样的文化。

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Gil says that women can't keep secrets. That's rich, coming from him, the professional sneak.

吉尔说女人不能保守秘密。这话从他这样一个整天打小报告的人嘴里说出来真是太荒谬了。

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He's stinking rich, and with no more talent than he ever had before.

他现在已经有几个臭钱了，但仍然和以前一样没什么才能。

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...a handful of filthy rich young men who work eight months a year.

少数几个每年只工作8个月的腰缠万贯的年轻人

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