Croesus

常见例句

Thus born and bred Cyrus became king; andafter this he subdued Croesus, who was the first to begin the quarrel, as Ihave before said; and having subdued him he then became ruler of all Asia.
居鲁士就是这样出生，长大并成为国王的。在此之后，正如我以前说到的那样，吕底亚国王克洛伊斯首先挑起争端，而居鲁士制服了克洛伊斯，成为全亚洲的统治者。
Facebook's boss turns down several Croesus-like offers to buy the company in spite of intense lobbying by fellow shareholders who think he should sell.
脸谱的老板不顾几个认为他应该卖的股东的强烈游说，拒绝了几个要买下公司的大手笔交易。
Now Croesus had two sons, of whom one was deficient, seeing that hewas deaf and dumb, while the other far surpassed his companions of thesame age in all things: and the name of this last was Atys.
当时克利萨斯有两个儿子，其中一个有缺陷，是个聋哑人，而另外一个则在所有方面都远远超过了其他所有的同龄伙伴，他的名字叫阿提斯。

I'll bet you never heard of Tellus of Athens, neither had Croesus, neither had anybody else outside of Athens.
我打赌你们从没听说过雅典的特勒斯,包括克罗伊斯在内的,任何一个非雅典人都不知道
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Croesus asked Solon to tell him who is the happiest, the most fortunate--both of those things contained in the words he uses--that he had ever seen.
克罗伊斯问梭伦,谁是你见过的,最幸福,最幸运的人,他用了一个词来表示这两重意思
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Croesus was astonished and he asked Solon why did he select Tellus?
克罗伊斯很吃惊,他问梭仑为什么选特勒斯
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Croesus is fortunate to be on the receiving end of timely insights into the stock market.
FORBES: Blue Chip Stocks Fetch Ridiculous Valuations, But Don't Sell Just Because It's May
Soros told Croesus this week that his returns were flat for 2008 and that he expects the bear market to resume soon.
FORBES: Soros Vs. Levy Vs. Buffett
On that reasoning, if the retirement age came down to 25 we would all be as rich as Croesus.
ECONOMIST: Pensions: 70 or bust! The