Profit

(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'.

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• This victory gained, Rokesmith made haste to profit by it, for he saw how woefully time had been lost. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Then why not have it: especially when our friend Miss Jenny here would profit by it too? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• 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. 维莱特.
• If the profit is less, mercantile employments will draw capital from the improvement of land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I put up $800, and was to get half of the profits, and each of them one-quarter. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The profits of stock seem to be very little affected by the easiness or difficulty of learning the trade in which it is employed. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The profits of mining would for some time be very great, and much above their natural rate. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If I were weak now, what had I profited by those mercies? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I profited of this time to rest for a few hours. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• 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. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The harmless Twemlow profited by the conditions entered into, though he little thought it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Like one who had profited well by lessons learned from yourself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Most of us have at times profited by the heat of condensation. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• McClernand told me on that day, the 6th, that he profited much by having so able a commander supporting him. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• 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.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• 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. 维莱特.
• I don't believe there is any gentleman in this university who is capable of profiting by such an action. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• And I can't be happy in working with you, or profiting by you. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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