投錢生錢的人
這一家是最具體、看得見的那個人：擁有資本並拿去運作的人。
wealthy investor · noun · C2
Someone who owns or controls a lot of money and puts it into businesses or banks so that more wealth can be made.
資本家
核心畫面
One way to hold it: a person whose money is not sitting still. They put it into factories, shops, or shares so that it works and grows — and around that habit a whole economic system is built, where the things that produce wealth belong to private hands rather than to the state. Everything the word means grows from that one figure: money used as a tool to make more money.
一個人手上的錢不是擺著不動的，而是被放進工廠、店面、股票裡，讓它自己去長大。圍繞著這個習慣，長出了一整套經濟制度——…更多收起
一個人手上的錢不是擺著不動的，而是被放進工廠、店面、股票裡，讓它自己去長大。圍繞著這個習慣，長出了一整套經濟制度——生產財富的東西掌握在私人手上，而不是國家手上。這個字的每個意思，都從這一個人物延伸出來：把錢當成工具，用來生出更多錢。Two branches
制度與立場
從「那個把錢拿去運作的人」往外放大：當整個社會都照這個邏輯運轉，就成了一套制度，而人可以支持它、東西也可以屬於它。
supporter of capitalism · noun · C2
Someone who supports capitalism, the system in which trade and industry are owned by private people and companies, not by the state.
資本主義者
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
capitalistadj/ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/
- 1
Of, or pertaining to, capitalism.
- capitalist economy
- capitalist countries
- 2
Supporting or endorsing capitalism.
- Well, I thank you for your question, but I have to say we're capitalist—and that is just the way it is. However, we do think that capitalism is not necessarily meeting the needs with the income inequality that we have in our country.
- 3
American.
capitalistnoun/ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/
- 1
The owner of a considerable amount of capital; a wealthy person.
- Very little of capital acquired in commerce is directed towards agriculture, save where a wealthy capitalist purchases lands for his own use; but it is seldom, if ever, applied to the improvement of the country, in the hands of the original landholders.
- Were a wealthy English capitalist to dispose of the property that belongs to him in Êngland, which has been realised by former industry, and take it to Van Diemen's Land, where he could have land for nothing, he would probably discover that he had made no very judicious change.
- 2
Someone whose wealth (capital) is invested in business ventures in order to return a profit.
- Near-synonyms: businessman, financier, industrialist
- The labourers do only receive, and ever have only received, as much as will subsist them, the landlords receive the surplus produce of the more fertile soils, and all the rest of the whole produce of labour in this and in every country goes to the capitalist under the name of profit for the use of his capital.
- 3
A person who is a supporter of capitalism.
- In a world of cheap airfares, laptops, and the Internet, we proudly regard mobility as a sign of how advanced we are. Hey, we're nomadic hipster capitalists!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。