词汇 | master of the universe |
词源 | Master of the Universe. American author Tom Wolfe in- vented this term in its sense of an extraordinary Wall Street trader, a preeminent moneymaker, in his novel Bonfire of the Vanities (1987). Master of the Universe was apparently suggest- ed by a toy doll of the same name. |
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