2019.07.14

周日 Sunday

wealth
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n. 財(cái)富；大量；富有

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It may come as no surprise that a strong majority of Americans support a wealth tax — a higher tax rate for a small number of millionaires and billionaires.

大多數(shù)美國(guó)人支持財(cái)富稅--對(duì)少數(shù)百萬富翁和億萬富翁征收更高的稅，這可能沒什么值得驚訝的。

But what might be a surprise is that some of those millionaires and billionaires are calling for a wealth tax themselves.

但是讓人驚訝的是，某些百萬富翁和億萬富翁自己也在號(hào)召征收財(cái)富稅。

Abigail Disney is one of those people.

阿比蓋爾·迪士尼就是其中的一個(gè)。

Her grandfather was Roy Disney, co-founder of the multibillion-dollar entertainment conglomerate that bears her family name — though she currently has no formal role with the company.

她的外祖父是羅伊·迪士尼，也就是價(jià)值數(shù)十億的娛樂企業(yè)迪士尼的合伙創(chuàng)始人--雖然她目前在公司還沒有正式職位。

The activist and filmmaker has been speaking out on the issue of income inequality, and specifically at Disney.?

這位活動(dòng)家和電影制作人在公開反對(duì)收入不平等，特別是針對(duì)迪士尼。

She was one of 18 people in the top one-tenth of the wealthiest 1% who first signed a recent letter to the 2020 presidential candidates supporting a tax for households with $50 million or more in assets.

最富有的千分之一群體中的18人簽署了聯(lián)名信，呼吁2020年總統(tǒng)候選人支持對(duì)資產(chǎn)超過5000萬美元的家庭征收稅款，她也是其中之一。

"Nothing in history ever moved forward just because people advocated for their own interests," Disney tells All Things Considered. "Things really change when people are traitors to their class, and my class needs some really good traitors these days."

“歷史上沒有什么事情是因?yàn)槿藗兌继岢珜?duì)自己有利的事情而進(jìn)步的?！钡鲜磕釋?duì)《通盤考慮》節(jié)目說道?！爱?dāng)人們是自己階級(jí)的叛徒時(shí)，事情才真正發(fā)生改變。這年頭，我的階級(jí)需要一些很好的叛徒?！?/div>

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今日詞匯

wealth
?[welθ]?
n. 財(cái)富；大量；富有

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He came in search of wealth, status, and power.

他來尋找財(cái)富、名望和權(quán)力。

He was intensely eager, indeed avid, for wealth.??

他嗜財(cái)如命。

文中wealth tax，指“財(cái)產(chǎn)稅”。