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- a financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something利润, 赢利; 收益：
record pre-tax profits
创纪录的税前利润
mass noun his eyes brightened at the prospect of profit.对利润的憧憬使他眼睛发亮。
1.1
- mass noun advantage; benefit好处, 益处; 利益：
there's no profit in screaming at referees from the bench.
坐在替补队员席上向裁判尖叫没有任何用处。
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profited, profiting
no obj. obtain a financial advantage or benefit, especially from an investment（尤指通过投资）获利：the only people to profit from the entire episode were the lawyers.
整个事件中惟一获利的就是那些律师。
1.1
- obtain an advantage or benefit得益：
not all children would profit from this kind of schooling.
并非所有孩子都可从这种学校教育中得益。
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- with obj. be beneficial to有益于：
it would profit us to change our plans.
改变计划对我们有好处。
短语
at a profit
- making more money than is spent buying, operating, or producing something获利地：
doing up houses and selling them at a profit.
把房子装修好出售并从中获利。
词源
Middle English （in the sense 'advantage，benefit'）： from Old French，from Latin profectus 'progress，profit'，from proficere 'to advance'，from pro-'on behalf of'+facere 'do'. The verb is from Old French profiter.