profit: [14] Like proficient, profit goes back to Latin prōficere ‘advance, be advantageous’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forward’ and facere ‘do, make’ (source of English fact, fashion, feat, etc). Its past participle prōfectus was used as a noun meaning ‘progress, success, profit’, and this passed into English via Old French profit. The Latin present participle prōficiēns ‘making progress’ is the source of English proficient [16], which took its meaning on via ‘making progress in learning’ to ‘adept’. => fact, fashion, feat, proficient
profit (v.)
early 14c., "to advance, benefit, gain," from profit (n.) and from Old French prufiter, porfiter "to benefit," from prufit (see profit (n.)). Related: Profited; profiting.
profit (n.)
mid-13c., "income;" c. 1300, "benefit, advantage;"from Old French prufit, porfit "profit, gain" (mid-12c.), from Latin profectus "profit, advance, increase, success, progress," noun use of past participle of proficere (see proficiency). As the opposite of loss, it replaced Old English gewinn. Profit margin attested from 1853.
双语例句
1. You can improve your chances of profit by sensible planning.
你可以通过合理计划来提高盈利的机会。
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2. The group had a net profit margin of 30% last year.
去年，这个集团的纯利润率为30%。
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3. Shares slid 11p to 293p after brokers downgraded their profit estimates.
股票经纪人降低了他们的利润预期之后，股价下跌了11便士至293便士。
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4. They are set to make a big fat profit.
他们下定决心要大赚一笔。
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5. We are making a damned good profit, I tell you that.
