A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
利润
Profit
We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.
我们需要很好地照顾我们的客户,这样做是有利润的。
Hold back some goods for a thousand days and you will be sure to sell at a profit.
保留一些货物一千天后,你一定能卖出好货。
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
公司:一种不需个人承担责任而获取利润的巧妙手段。
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
好书开卷引人入胜,闭卷引人入胜。
I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity.
我希望生意兴隆,生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆,我希望生意兴隆。
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
利润,像香肠…最受那些最不了解自己内心的人的尊重。
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
提醒人们利润是收入和支出的差额。这会让你看起来很聪明。
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
我受过苦难的教育,知道许多洁净的仪式,也知道什么时候该说话,什么时候该沉默。
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
我不想和那些不赚钱的人做生意,因为他们不能提供最好的服务。
There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.
越来越多的人担心,石油公司以牺牲消费者利益为代价赚取了太多利润。
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
只有当有钱的阶层认为他们能从中获利时,才会发生对外国的战争。
Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.
让企业松绑,让盈利动机肆意妄为,并不是让世界变得更宜居的良方。
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
因此,缺乏才能的学生将不会从这项工作中获得更多的利润,就像从一篇农业论文中获得贫瘠的土壤一样。
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
人们所说的友谊只不过是一种社会安排,一种利益的相互调整,一种给予和接受服务的交换;总之,这只是一个简单的业务,涉及的人建议从中获得稳定的利润,为自己的爱。
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.
发行货币的全部利润提供了今天存在的巨大银行业务的资本。
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
你的舌头虽然能回答,却没有像石头那样长久,那样没有意义的思想。
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
我们给人忠告,却不能以智慧使人得益处。