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.
雙語例句
1. You can improve your chances of profit by sensible planning.
你可以通過合理計劃來提高盈利的機會。
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2. The group had a net profit margin of 30% last year.
去年，這個集團的純利潤率為30%。
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3. Shares slid 11p to 293p after brokers downgraded their profit estimates.
股票經紀人降低了他們的利潤預期之後，股價下跌了11便士至293便士。
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4. They are set to make a big fat profit.
他們下定決心要大賺一筆。
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5. We are making a damned good profit, I tell you that.