Croesus

1 Herodotus refers to a deaf son of Croesus, whom he declares to have suddenly recovered his speech upon seeing his father about to be killed.

2 He was rich as Croesus, something he had never expected to be, not in a million years.

3 In fourteen days Sardis was stormed and Croesus taken prisoner.

在十四天之中,萨狄斯被攻击,克雷兹成了阶下囚.

4 Is the world falling out of love with the Croesus of Cupertino?

5 A person will rarely amass such a Croesus fortune unless he or she is intensely committed to becoming extraordinarily affluent.

6 Our friend Rob is as rich as Croesus, but dependent upon his father.

我们的朋友罗布非常富有，但是他依赖于他的父亲。

7 In the spring of 546 Croesus of Lydia began the attack and advanced into Cappadocia, while the other powers were still gathering their troops.

8 He, of course, became as rich as Croesus, even as he bathed in the adulation of his television viewers.

9 Picasso was as rich as Croesus, and the means of production were safe in his hands.

10 It’s also difficult to negotiate with a car salesman when he thinks you have more money than Croesus.

11 The walls were whitewashed for similar reasons, though the decision to hang no art would have stood even if he and Gulliver had been as rich as Croesus.

12 But the people of Croesus’ own time took him for granted, as we do too often with billionaires.

13 It appears unfair that certain executives were enriched, entirely lawfully, to a degree that would have been the envy of Croesus and have beggared Mycenae.

14 Solon, it is well known, travelled to the court of Croesus, and it is affirmed that Pythagoras visited India.

15 Young escaped to the Premiership, but if the Blues were financially challenged, once taken to court by the taxman, they were as Croesus compared to Wasps.

16 When Foster, 47, was growing up in a house on Croesus Street, just a few blocks from where Thomas now lives, adults all over the neighborhood kept an eye out for everyone’s kids.

17 Jeb, through his own fundraising efforts, and that of Right to Rise, a pro-Bush super PAC, has raised money beyond the dreams of Croesus.

18 Do you commit this summer to a long-term contract of the sort that would tickle the tummy of Croesus?

19 The ancient king Croesus, who’s credited with inventing minted money itself, gave a 500-pound lump of gold to the oracle at Delphi as tribute for good forecasts.

20 And Croesus more than likely did not listen, so anxious was he about himself.

1 大财主

baron moneybag

2 富豪

millionaire magnate plutocrat plutocracy nabob jet set capitalist Dives

3 大富豪

multimillionaire midas multimillionaire