82岁金融大鳄索罗斯将迎娶40岁女友

2012-08-15 00:00:00来源：中国日报英语点津

　　Billionaire investor George Soros had a lot to celebrate on Saturday evening: his 82nd birthday and the engagement to his much younger girlfriend, Tamiko Bolton.
　　亿万富翁、投资家乔治索罗斯上周六庆祝82岁生日时，宣布将迎娶比自己年轻很多的女友多美子-博尔顿。
　　Soros and Bolton, who met in the spring of 2008, formally announced their engagement at a party at Soros" summer home in Southampton, New York, attended by a small group of friends and relatives, according to a person familiar with the investor.
　　索罗斯与博尔顿于2008年春天相识。据与索罗斯相熟人士的消息，二人近日在纽约南安普敦避暑寓所举行生日派对时，向出席的少数亲友公布了订婚喜讯。
　　Soros proposed to Bolton, 40, a few weeks ago during a weekend visit to the Hamptons, a beachside colony on Long Island frequentedby New York's wealthy.
　　几周前，在某个周末的汉普顿之旅时，索罗斯向40岁的博尔顿求婚。纽约的富豪们经常到海边度假胜地长岛汉普顿游玩。
　　For Soros, this will be his third marriage and the second for Bolton, who was married briefly in the 1990s. Soros has five children from his previous marriages.
　　这是索罗斯的第三次婚姻，也是博尔顿的第二次婚姻。博尔顿在上世纪90年代有过一段短暂婚史。索罗斯之前有五名子女。
　　Last year, Adriana Ferreyr, a former girlfriend of Soros, filed a lawsuit alleging he had renegedon a promise to buy her an apartment. Soros has filed a pending motion to dismiss the suit by the former Brazilian soap opera star.
　　去年，索罗斯的前女友阿德里安娜费雷拉控告索罗斯违反承诺，没有送她一套公寓。索罗斯正申请停止诉讼。费雷拉是巴西的一名肥皂剧女星。
　　Ferreyr's attorney, Robert Hantman, said: "I wish him the best of luck on his marriage, and now that he doesn't need the apartment, hopefully the case can be resolved."
　　费雷拉的律师罗伯特-亨特曼说：“我祝他婚姻幸福，现在看来他不需要这套公寓了，希望案子能尽快了结。”
　　Soros, who is an active contributor to politically liberal causes and frequently speaks on world economic events, converted his hedge fundinto a family office in 2011 and stopped managing money for outside investors.
　　索罗斯积极支持政治自由主义，频繁发表有关全球经济事件的言论。他在2011年将旗下对冲基金转作家族基金，也不再为外部投资者进行资金管理。
　　Soros rose to fame and fortune two decades ago on a now-historic trade, in which he took onthe Bank of England and shrewdly wagered ona devaluation of the British pound.
　　20年前，索罗斯向英格兰银行发起了挑战，精明地押注英镑贬值，攫取了巨额财富，也因此声名大振。这在现今来看也堪称历史上很著名的一次交易行为。
　　Bolton, who once started an Internet-based dietary supplementbusiness and is now running a web-based yoga education business, has a master's degree in business from the University of Miami.
　　博尔顿拥有迈阿密大学商科硕士学位，曾在网上销售膳食补充剂，现在经营一家网络瑜伽培训机构。
　　The engagement ring Soros gave Bolton, according to a person close to him, is a Graff diamond in a platinum setting on a rose gold band.
　　据索罗斯身边的人传出消息，订婚戒指是一枚格拉夫钻戒，钻石镶在白金戒托上，戒圈为玫瑰金。