profit简单

generated considerable profits.

产生了可观的利润。

Scientific publishers routinely report profit margins approaching 40% on their operations, at a time when the rest of the publishing industry is in an existential crisis.

科学出版商的经营利润率通常接近40%，而与此同时，出版业的其他部分却正处于生存危机之中。

The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly funded research; both figures seem to rise unstoppably despite increasingly desperate efforts to change them.

荷兰巨头爱思唯尔声称出版了全世界25%的科学论文，去年利润超过9亿英镑；而仅英国的大学在2016年就花费了2.1亿多英镑，让研究人员能够查阅他们自己由公共资金资助的研究；尽管人们为改变这一状况所作的努力越来越孤注一掷，这两个数字似乎仍在势不可挡地上升。

More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general release.

现在，英国一半以上的科学研究都是按开放获取条款发表的：要么从发表之时起就免费提供，要么先付费阅读一年或更长时间，让出版商赚取利润后再公开发布。

In some ways the scientific publishing model resembles the economy of the social internet: labour is provided free in exchange for the hope of status, while huge profits are made by a few big firms who run the market places.

从某些方面来看，科学出版模式与社交网络经济相似：劳动力被免费提供，以换取获得地位的希望，而巨额利润则被少数几家经营市场平台的大公司赚走。

These have included Britain’s DPT (diverted profits tax), Australia’s MAAL (multinational antiavoidance law), and India’s SEP (significant economic presence) test, to name but a few.

这些条款包括英国的DPT（转移利润税）、澳大利亚的MAAL（跨国公司反避税法）和印度的SEP（显著经济存在）测试，这里仅举几例。

“Short-termism” or the desire for quick profits, has worsened in publicly traded companies, says the Bank of England’s top economist, Andrew Haldane.

英格兰银行首席经济学家安德鲁·霍尔丹表示，“短期主义”即追求快速获利的欲望，在上市公司中已经愈演愈烈。

Transient investors, who demand high quarterly profits from companies, can hinder a firm’s efforts to invest in long-term research or to build up customer loyalty.

短期投资者要求公司获得高额季度利润，这可能会妨碍公司投资于长期研究或培养客户忠诚度的努力。

help corporations achieve larger profits.

帮助企业获得更大利润。

the conditions for generating quick profits.

快速获利的条件。

making profits from patients’ data is illegal.

利用患者数据牟利是违法的。

“There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel prize-winning economist, “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.”

诺贝尔经济学奖得主米尔顿·弗里德曼写道：“企业有且只有一项社会责任，那就是利用其资源，从事旨在增加利润的活动。”

Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism” in society should be profit and the market.

她认为，诚信之所以崩塌，是因为人们普遍接受了社会唯一的“分类机制”应当是利润和市场这一观念。

But “it’s us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want, not profit.”

但“是我们，是人类，是我们人民创造了我们想要的社会，而不是利润。”

For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit.

一代人以来，普遍的信条一直是社会的分类机制应当是利润。

prevents lawyers from gaining due profits.

使律师无法获得应得的利润。

the profit-oriented scientists.

唯利是图的科学家。

Quicker turnarounds mean less wasted inventory, more frequent releases, and more profit.

周转更快意味着积压浪费的库存更少、新品发布更频繁、利润更高。

Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits.

把孩子或成人划分为越来越细的类别，已被证明是提高利润的必胜之道。

mainly imposed by profit-driven businessmen.

主要是由逐利的商人强加的。

make profits from the troubled economy.

从困境中的经济里牟利。

gaining excessive profits.

获取了过多利润。

Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled corner of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit.

就连身处全球报业中最困难领域的美国报纸，也不仅存活了下来，而且常常重新开始盈利。

Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.

虽然不是几年前常见的20%的利润率，但毕竟还是盈利了。

Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.

虽然不是几年前常见的20%的利润率，但毕竟还是盈利了。