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双语阅读：盖茨第17次登顶福布斯全美富豪榜 2010年09月27日08:23中国日报强凤华我要评论(1) 字号：T|T Gates, founder of Microsoft, was the richest person in the United States for the 17th year in a row with an estimated worth of $54 billion, up $4 billion from last year. Things are on the up for US billionaires with more than half of them adding to their net worth in a year which once again saw Bill Gates as the richest of them all, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday. Gates, founder of Microsoft, was the richest person in the United States for the 17th year in a row with an estimated worth of $54 billion, up $4 billion from last year. No. 2 on the list was investor Warren Buffett, worth $45 billion, up $5 billion. Oracle founder Larry Ellisons net worth was unchanged, in third place, at $27 billion. Christy Walton, heir to Walmart founder Sam Waltons fortune, was in fourth place with $24 billion, up $2.5 billion. In stark contrast to the 2009 Forbes 400 list, 217 of the tycoons are now worth more than they were a year ago. Just 84 of the billionaires had a decrease in wealth. In 2009 a?whopping314 members of the exclusive club had experienced a decrease in their wealth. The top 10 gained $24.9 billion. The same group had shed almost $40 billion last year. The total wealth of the group is up 8 percent,?bestingthe Standard Poors 500 index, which measured a stock market increase of just 1 percent, Forbes said. The Forbes 400 are worth a combined $1.37 trillion, compared with $1.27 trillion last year. The price of admission to the list is back up to $1 billion from 2009 when $950 million was enough to make the top 400. There are no new entries or drop-offs in the top 10 but the list?shuffled. The Koch brothers, heads of energy and manufacturing giant Koch Industries, now rank above three other members of the Walton family and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, founder of news and information company Bloomberg LP, who?round outthe top 10. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, No. 35, saw the largest relative increase, more t