傑夫·貝索斯單日資產增百億

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos became $13bn (10bn pounds) richer in a single day on Monday after shares in his company surged nearly 8%.

週一，亞馬遜股價暴漲約8%，其創始人傑夫·貝索斯僅在一天內身家就增加了130億美元（100億英鎊）。

Already the world's richest man by a huge margin, Bezos is now estimated to be worth $189.3bn (148bn pounds).

貝索斯原本就是世界首富，身家遠超他人。據估計，目前貝索斯的資產爲1893億美元（1480億英鎊）。

His fortune has ballooned $74bn (58bn pounds) this year alone, according to Bloomberg, with Amazon shares up more than 70% in 2020.

據《彭博社》消息，僅今年一年，他的資產就暴增了740億美元（580億英鎊），2020年亞馬遜股票漲幅超過70%。

The daily jump in the 56-year-old's wealth is the biggest ever recorded by Bloomberg's billionaire tracker.

在彭博億萬富翁追蹤數據記錄中，這位56歲的富豪單日財富漲幅最大。

The all-encompassing web giant has reaped the benefit of the coronavirus lockdown as people increasingly avoid shops and buy online.

這家無所不賣的網絡巨頭公司在疫情期間賺得盆滿鉢滿，因爲人們越來越不願意去實體店了，都選擇網上購物。

Bezos famously started his company in his garage in the mid-1990s, rapidly expanding from selling books to establish an online juggernaut that spans the world.

衆所周知，上世紀90年代中期，貝索斯在車庫裏開始創業，最初賣書，很快發展成爲網絡巨頭，業務遍佈全球。

His personal wealth now exceeds the value of huge multinational companies and is roughly on par with the GDP of Iraq - and only about $14bn (11bn pounds) behind Greece.

現在他的個人財富超過了一些大型跨國公司的市值，與伊拉克的國內生產總值相當，僅比希臘少140億美元（110億英鎊）。