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A British multi-millionaire said he would challenge a ruling that ordered him to pay his former wife what is believed to be the biggest divorce award in English legal history.
一位英國百萬富翁說他不服判決。該判決要求他付給前妻據信是英國司法史上最高的離婚補償。
John Charman, 53, has been ordered to pay Beverley Charman a total of 48 million pounds (70.7 million euros, 90.6 million dollars), according a London High Court ruling he described as "unfair and unreasonable".
根據倫敦高級法院的判決，五十三歲的約翰.查曼要付給貝弗利. 查曼總共4800萬英鎊（約合7000萬歐元或9000萬美圓）。查曼稱這一判決“不公平並且不合理”。
The total sum includes eight million pounds of assets already in his wife's name, with the remainder to be paid to her in a lump sum.
補償的總額包括已經置於其妻名下的價值800萬鎊的資產，剩下的差額要一次性付給她。
In percentage terms, the judge held the sum to be just under 37 percent of Charman's assets, built up through the insurance industry. The judge said the assets amounted to just over 131 million pounds.
就百分比來說，法官把判決的數目訂在查曼靠保險業創立起來的資產總額的37%上。法官說他的全部身家總計超過一億三千萬鎊。
The couple married in 1976, when neither had significant wealth, and separated in November 2003 before divorcing in April 2005.
這對夫婦在1976年結婚，當時他們都沒多少財產。他們于2003年11月分居並在2005年四月離婚。
Charman, who is based in Bermuda and the United States, said he would appeal this decision as it was “an extraordinary decision by any reasonable standards”.
住在百慕大和美國的查曼說他將對此判決提出上訴，因為它“無論用什麼合情合理的標準來衡量都是很極端的決定”。
He said he had made an offer to his wife of 20 million, which would be impossible for any reasonable person to spend in their lifetime.
他說他已經答應付給前妻200萬，這麼多錢是任何正常人一輩子也花不完的。
His ex-wife did not want to comment on the ruling, a spokeswoman for her lawyers said.
他的前妻不願就判決發表評論，其律師的發言人說。
Concluding the case, judge Paul Coleridge said it was a long marriage where the parties started with nothing and all the wealth was effectively created during its subsistence. And both played their full part in the marriage.
結案時，法官寶羅.科勒裏遲說這是一段持續時間很長的婚姻，雙方白手起家，所有財富都是在婚姻存蓄期間被有效地創造出來的。並且雙方都在婚姻中盡了他們應盡的責任。
（中國國際廣播電臺譯）
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