Profitable

(adj.) yielding material gain or profit; 'profitable speculation on the stock market' .

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• It furnishes profitable amusement to the young, and satisfactory aid to the nervous and paralytic. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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. 简·爱.
• Part of what had before been employed in other trades, is necessarily withdrawn from them, and turned into some of the new and more profitable ones. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The crop we are going to raise is a profitable one, and Jo laughed. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Again the old question returns upon us: Is justice or injustice the more profitable? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• 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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• My master, finding how profitable I was likely to be, resolved to carry me to the most considerable cities of the kingdom. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Through the greater part of Scotland, therefore, it cannot yet be even so profitable. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In Virginia and Maryland, the cultivation of tobacco is preferred, as most profitable, to that of corn. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Serve a friend with it, and you may know the end of it too,--but it's a less pleasant and profitable end. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Not directly profitable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• 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·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Varro and Columella assure us, that it was a most profitable article. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It will, therefore, be sent abroad, in order to seek that profitable employment which it cannot find at home. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Then, my blessed Thrasymachus, injustice can never be more profitable than justice. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Service, however (with a few limited reservations, genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Have you posts of profitable pecuniary emolument? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The price was enormously high, and made successful smuggling very profitable. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Later Boulton and Watt’s engines were installed, and with the most profitable results. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Secondly, it's not made out to me how it's likely to be profitable, after all. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In the discussion that followed he suggested several kinds of work which he had in his mind, and which might prove profitable. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It becomes gradually more and more difficult to find within the country a profitable method of employing any new capital. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Is a counting-house profitable? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• As the war progressed the daily newspaper sales became very profitable, and I gave up the vegetable store. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Though the one employment, therefore, may to him perhaps be less profitable than the other, it cannot be less advantageous to his country. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Neither the materials necessary for supporting their useful machines and instruments of trade, their profitable buildings, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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