Profit
['prɒfɪt] or ['prɑfɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the advantageous quality of being beneficial.
(verb.) make a profit; gain money or materially; 'The company has not profited from the merger'.
(verb.) derive a benefit from; 'She profited from his vast experience'.
希拉里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
(n.) Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
(n.) To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
埃尔希編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Gain, produce, emolument, return, avails.[2]. Advantage, benefit, service, weal, interest, welfare, behoof, behalf, account, utility.
編輯:菲利普
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Gain, emolument, advantage, avail, acquisition, benefit_service, use,improvement
ANT:Loss, detriment, damage, disadvantage, waste
克利夫顿錄入
解釋/意思:
n. gain: the gain resulting from the employment of capital: the difference between the selling price and the first cost: advantage: addition to good or value: benefit: improvement.—v.t. to benefit or to be of advantage to: to improve.—v.i. to gain advantage: to receive profit: to improve: to be of advantage: to bring good.—adj. Prof′itable yielding or bringing profit or gain: lucrative: productive: advantageous: beneficial.—n. Prof′itableness.—adv. Prof′itably.—ns. Prof′iter; Prof′iting profit gain or advantage: (B.) progress or proficiency.—adj. Prof′itless without profit gain or advantage.—adv. Prof′itlessly.—n. Prof′it-shar′ing a voluntary agreement under which the employee receives a share fixed beforehand in the profits of a business.—Profit and loss gain or loss arising from buying and selling &c.—Net profits clear gain after deduction of all outlay and expenses; Rate of profit the amount of profit compared with the capital used in its production.
校對:鲁珀特
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of profits, brings success in your immediate future. See Gain.
錄入:索菲娅
例句/造句/用法:
- This victory gained, Rokesmith made haste to profit by it, for he saw how woefully time had been lost. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Then why not have it: especially when our friend Miss Jenny here would profit by it too? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This done, Madame would send Désirée out for a walk with her _bonne_, and profit by her absence to rob the robber. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- If the profit is less, mercantile employments will draw capital from the improvement of land. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I put up $800, and was to get half of the profits, and each of them one-quarter. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Not only the profits of stock, but the rent of land, and the wages of labour, would necessarily be more or less diminished by its removal. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The profits of stock seem to be very little affected by the easiness or difficulty of learning the trade in which it is employed. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The profits of mining would for some time be very great, and much above their natural rate. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If I were weak now, what had I profited by those mercies? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I profited of this time to rest for a few hours. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Perhaps you may remember some one saying at the beginning of our discussion that the unjust man was profited if he had the reputation of justice. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The harmless Twemlow profited by the conditions entered into, though he little thought it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Like one who had profited well by lessons learned from yourself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Most of us have at times profited by the heat of condensation. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- McClernand told me on that day, the 6th, that he profited much by having so able a commander supporting him. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Profiting then by the surprise of his spectators the showman began to offer them his magic portfolio at the price of five sous for the small size and ten for the large. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- There is nothing great about you, yet you are above profiting by the good nature and purse of a man to whom you feel absolute indifference. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I don't believe there is any gentleman in this university who is capable of profiting by such an action. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- And I can't be happy in working with you, or profiting by you. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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