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a/an [adjective] magnate
形容词常表示领域或性质，如industrial, shipping, property等。
He is a powerful media magnate.
他是一位有权势的传媒大亨。
巨头；大亨；实业大亨
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巨头；大亨；实业大亨
a very wealthy or powerful businessman
He is a powerful media magnate.
他是一位有权势的传媒大亨。
有权势的实业家；行业巨头
Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
非常富有或有权势的商人
a very wealthy or powerful businessman
在任何领域有地位、影响力或声望的人
A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
The shipping magnate donated millions to build a new hospital.
这位航运巨头捐出数百万美元建造一家新医院。
After years of hard work, she became a media magnate.
经过多年努力，她成为了传媒大亨。
The oil magnate bought a private island for his family.
这位石油大亨为家人买了一座私人岛屿。
形容词常表示领域或性质，如industrial, shipping, property等。
He is a powerful media magnate.
他是一位有权势的传媒大亨。
of后接行业或领域名词。
She became a magnate of the oil industry.
她成为了石油业的巨头。
强调成功过程。
He rose from poverty to become a magnate.
他从贫穷崛起成为大亨。
Not this
He is a magnate businessman.
Use this
He is a business magnate.
Magnate 是名词，不能用作形容词直接修饰另一个名词；正确结构为 'business magnate'，即名词修饰名词，说明其类型。
Not this
The company is a magnate for talent.
Use this
The company is a magnet for talent.
Magnate 指‘大亨’，是人物，而这里需要表示‘吸引人才’的‘磁铁’，应用 'magnet'。拼写相近但意义不同。
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商业巨头
The business magnate donated millions to the university.
这位商业巨头向大学捐赠了数百万美元。
媒体大亨
The media magnate owns several newspapers and television channels.
这位媒体大亨拥有多家报纸和电视频道。
石油大亨
As an oil magnate, he controls a vast network of refineries.
作为石油大亨，他掌控着一个庞大的炼油厂网络。
航运大亨
The shipping magnate's fleet sails to ports around the world.
这位航运大亨的船队驶往世界各地的港口。
钢铁巨头
The steel magnate built his fortune in the early twentieth century.
这位钢铁巨头在二十世纪初积累了财富。
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联想 magnet（磁铁）：大亨像磁铁一样吸金，是商业巨子。
语域：formal 常见场景：business news、media profiles、historical writing magnate 比较正式，通常用于新闻报道、人物介绍或历史叙述中，指非常富有且有影响力的商人或实业家；日常口语中更常说 tycoon 或 mogul。
magnet is a true rhyme and homophone: /ˈmæɡnət/. signet, pregnant, and cognate are useful lookalikes: signet shares the final /ɡnət/ but not the stressed vowel, and pregnant and cognate differ in stress, vowel, or ending.
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