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。本期的词汇栏目，就让长沙新航道小编教大家一个新的潮词。

Zillionaire refers to a person who has an extremely large but unspecified amount of money. Zillionaire is an immeasurably wealthy person.

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.

Millionaire eventually no longer sufficed, and English speakers coined billionaire in 1844. Soon afterwards came multimillionaire, followed by multibillionaire in the early 1900s.

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.

Zillion and zillionaire aren't used in the most formal of writing, but they have found their way into plenty of serious publications.

“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。

“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。

“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。

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。

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。

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