Profitable
['prɒfɪtəb(ə)l] or ['prɑfɪtəbl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) yielding material gain or profit; 'profitable speculation on the stock market' .
編輯:罗德里克--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.
編輯:朱尔斯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Gainful, advantageous, desirable, beneficial, useful, productive, remunerative,lucrative
ANT:Unprofitable, disadvantageous, undesirable, detrimental, unbeneficial,unprofitable, useless, vain, fruitless, unproductive, unremunerative
編輯:雷金纳德
例句/造句/用法:
- It furnishes profitable amusement to the young, and satisfactory aid to the nervous and paralytic. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- You need be in no hurry to hear, he said: let me frankly tell you, I have nothing eligible or profitable to suggest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Part of what had before been employed in other trades, is necessarily withdrawn from them, and turned into some of the new and more profitable ones. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The crop we are going to raise is a profitable one, and Jo laughed. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Again the old question returns upon us: Is justice or injustice the more profitable? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- If all the pupils are little ragamuffins, I'm afraid your crop won't be profitable in a worldly sense, Mrs. Bhaer. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- My master, finding how profitable I was likely to be, resolved to carry me to the most considerable cities of the kingdom. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Through the greater part of Scotland, therefore, it cannot yet be even so profitable. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco is preferred, as most profitable, to that of corn. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Serve a friend with it, and you may know the end of it too,--but it's a less pleasant and profitable end. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Not directly profitable. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The public was astonished at the cheapness and good quality of the work, but it was its immense sale which rendered it profitable; for some years it amounted to 180,000 copies weekly. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Varro and Columella assure us, that it was a most profitable article. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They had long wished to share in the profitable traffic of the Venetians, and this last discovery opened to them a probable prospect of doing so. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It will, therefore, be sent abroad, in order to seek that profitable employment which it cannot find at home. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Then, my blessed Thrasymachus, injustice can never be more profitable than justice. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- If he was an economist, he generally found it more profitable to employ his annual savings in new purchases than in the improvement of his old estate. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Service, however (with a few limited reservations, genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Have you posts of profitable pecuniary emolument? 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The price was enormously high, and made successful smuggling very profitable. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Later Boulton and Watt’s engines were installed, and with the most profitable results. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Secondly, it's not made out to me how it's likely to be profitable, after all. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the discussion that followed he suggested several kinds of work which he had in his mind, and which might prove profitable. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It becomes gradually more and more difficult to find within the country a profitable method of employing any new capital. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Is a counting-house profitable? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The trade of a butcher is a brutal and an odious business; but it is in most places more profitable than the greater part of common trades. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- As the war progressed the daily newspaper sales became very profitable, and I gave up the vegetable store. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Though the one employment, therefore, may to him perhaps be less profitable than the other, it cannot be less advantageous to his country. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Neither the materials necessary for supporting their useful machines and instruments of trade, their profitable buildings, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
編輯:雷金纳德