The lottery winner went from rags to riches overnight.

该彩票奖得主在一夕间由穷致富。

The beggar went from rags to riches overnight by winning the lottery.

那个乞丐贏了彩券后一夕间由赤贫变为富有。

He rose from rags to riches after starting a restaurant chain Saravana Bhavan in the southern city of Chennai in the 1980s.

上世纪80年代，他在印度南部城市钦奈白手起家，创办了连锁餐厅Saravana Bhavan。

And they are the phrases, money talks, or from rags to riches.

他们是短语， 金钱谈判，或白手起家。

Going from rags to riches, he says he found happiness but it wasn't just about dollars and cents.

他说，从一贫如洗到发家致富，他找到了幸福，但幸福不仅仅是钱和美分。

On the other hand, in the US, people are in general pretty accurate about mobility, but they really overestimate this idea of the American Dream, this idea of making it from rags to riches.

另一方面，在美国，人们通常对流动性的看法是相当准确的，但他们真的高估了美国梦这个概念，这个从贫穷到富有的概念。

We haven't grown faster than other countries; we don't have higher labor-force participation rates; we don't have higher social mobility of people going from rags to riches.

我们的发展速度并不比其他国家快；我们没有更高的劳动力参与率；我们没有从破烂到富有的人的更高社会流动性。

So we say they went from rags to riches, rags being really old clothes that probably have lots of holes in them, and then riches being just having lots of money.

所以我们说他们从破烂变成了富有，破烂是真正的旧衣服，上面可能有很多洞，然后财富就是有很多钱。

And the other phrase, from rags to riches, we use to refer to someone who was poor, someone who didn't have very much money, and maybe they started a very successful business and became rich.

另一个短语，从白手起家，我们用来指代贫穷的人，没有很多钱的人，也许他们开始了非常成功的事业并变得富有。