希腊船王奥纳西斯家族富可敌国，但他本人早年却穷困潦倒。他没日没夜地工作，终于有了一小笔积蓄。本世纪三十年代，世界范围内的经济危机爆发，成千上万家企业、银行破产倒闭，国际贸易也陷于瘫痪，1931年的海运量仅是1928年的三分之一左右。经济的普遍萧条让奥纳西斯隐约感 The Onassis, the Greek ship’s king, is rich and powerful, but he was impoverished in his early years. He worked day and night, and finally got a small savings. In the 1930s, the worldwide economic crisis broke out. Thousands of enterprises and banks went bankrupt and the international trade was paralyzed. In 1931, the volume of ocean shipping was only about one third of that in 1928. The general depression in the economy to Onassis vague sense