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他是靠贩卖军火发迹的。 He rose [made a career for himself] by dealing in munitions. | ||
弗兰克发迹了，他的生意兴隆。 Frank was doing very well for himself. His business was booming. | ||
史密斯先生开始小本经营而后发迹。 Mr. Smith began in a small way and piked along. | ||
三个年轻女子来到战后的纽约寻找发迹致富的机会。 Three young women come to postwar New York to make their fortune. | ||
按理说，他这样的庸才正该发迹才是，可不知怎么就是不得志。 Yet he failed somehow, in spite of a mediocrity which ought to have insured any man a success. | ||
贾家的发迹与国朝的定鼎均称已历百载，家、国的基业列为同步。 It is said that both the Jias and the Celestial Empire have prospered for a century, and they have developed at the same pace. | ||
发迹于别人公司——或是别的国家——的不幸遭遇也许不会使你成为奥普拉脱口秀节目的座上宾。 Prospering from another company's — or country's - misfortunes probably won't get you a guest shot on Oprah. | ||
当新代表进入议会，一些老议员们阐扬淡漠，由于他们以为他是一个忽地发迹者。 When the new representative entered the legislature some older members received him coldly if they regarded him a great upstartistic creation. | ||
在巴黎，有人看见你踏镫上马开始发迹的时候，马上有些人来扯住你的衣襟，另一些人松开马肚带的扣子，使你跌下来摔破脑袋。 In Paris, some people see when your horse stirrups began immediately, some people to pull your skirt, others loosen cinch buttons, make you fall head broken. | ||
由于赵匡胤出身低微而开宋基，自宋朝始，民间即广泛流传着关于他的故事，后来“飞龙”逐渐成为赵匡胤发迹变泰故事的代名词。 Since Zhao Kuangyin s family background was very humble but finally became the first emperor of Song Dynasty, the stories about him were very popular since then. | ||
