财富不可计数的“超级富翁”

如何用英语形容超级大富豪的财富呢？百万千万非常不够，十亿百亿似乎也上不了全球富豪排行榜。那么就用财富不可计数的“超级富翁”吧。

Zillionaire refers to a person who has an extremely large but unspecified amount of money. Zillionaire is an immeasurably wealthy person.
“超级富翁”指的是有非常多的财富，但数额并不确切的富豪。他们的财富通常不可计数。

The word millionaire has been used in English to designate a person who is worth a million pounds or dollars, depending on the side of the ocean, since 1786. We borrowed the word straight from the French, whose millions, of course, were in francs.
“百万富翁”（millionaire）1786年出现在英语词汇中，用来指身价百万英镑或美元的人，货币单位取决于在英国还是美国。这个词来自法语，最初指的是百万法郎。

Millionaire eventually no longer sufficed, and English speakers coined billionaire in 1844. Soon afterwards came multimillionaire, followed by multibillionaire in the early 1900s.
“百万富翁”终于不足以描述一些人的财富了。1844年，人们创造出“亿万富翁”（billionaire）一词，紧接着“千万富豪”（multimillionaire）出现了，20世纪初，“拥有数十亿资产的富翁“（multibillionaire）一词也出现在了英语中。

Once zillion was made up as a humorous word for an indeterminately large number (patterned on million and billion), it was only a matter of time before zillionaire came along as a humorous word for a person of seemingly immeasurable wealth.
后来人们创造出zillion（庞大的数字，无法计算的大数字）一词，这是一个幽默词汇，用来形容不确定的多位数（效仿million和billion）。随后，zillionaire这个形容有着无限财富的大富豪的幽默词汇也出现在词汇中。

Zillion and zillionaire aren't used in the most formal of writing, but they have found their way into plenty of serious publications.
在最正式的文章中，我们一般不适用zillion和zillionaire两种说法，但它们也出现在非常多的严肃出版物中。

（中国日报网英语点津 yaning）