2008年以来亿万富翁的数量增长两倍多
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The number of billionaires in the world has more than doubled since the global financial crisis the charity Oxfam said in a new report released on Wednesday (October 29).

牛津饥荒救济委员会周三(10月29日)发布的一份报告中称,自2008年全球金融危机爆发以来,亿万富翁的数量增长了两倍还多。
 
Far from quelling1 the ranks of the super-rich the 2008 markets crash has in fact swelled2 the ranks of billionaires to 1,645 people, Oxfam said as it launched its "Even It Up" campaign aimed at redressing3 growing imbalances in the world, such as the fact that seven out of 10 people live in countries where the gap between rich and poor is greater than it was 30 years ago.
 
The report said that in countries in all four corners of the globe, a wealthy minority are taking an ever-increasing share of their nation's income.
 
"Well particularly actually over the last thirty years the gap between rich and poor has really exploded but what's interesting is that Credit Suisse put out some data showing what's happened since the financial crisis in terms of the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest and they showed that the inequality so that gap was kind of starting to narrow a little bit before the financial crisis and since then, since 2009 its started to open up again. So it's showing that the richest have made a recovery, they're doing well again. The number of billionaires has actually doubled, more than doubled since the financial crisis and you've still got one billion living in extreme poverty and that's the kind of situation that we think is unacceptable," said one of the authors of the report, Emma Seery.  
 
At the start of 2014, Oxfam calculated that the richest 85 people on the planet owned as much as the poorest half of humanity.
 
The charity said that between March 2013 and March 2014, these 85 people grew 668 million US dollars (USD) richer each day. 
 
If Bill Gates were to cash in all of his wealth, and spend 1m (USD) every single day, it would take him 218 years to spend it all. 
 
In reality though, he would never run out of money: even a modest return of just under two percent would make him 4.2 million (USD) each day in interest alone, Oxfam said. 
 
Extreme wealth is not just to be found in richer nations. The very very rich exist alongside desperate poverty in many countries.


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v.(用武力)制止,结束,镇压( quell的现在分词 )
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2 swelled bd4016b2ddc016008c1fc5827f252c73     
增强( swell的过去式和过去分词 ); 肿胀; (使)凸出; 充满(激情)
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  • The infection swelled his hand. 由于感染,他的手肿了起来。
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v.改正( redress的现在分词 );重加权衡;恢复平衡
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