profit是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 利益, 利润，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, then, allow me to profit by my unlucky mistake.
-- They go to barter their few articles of industry, hunting and fishing implements, weapons, etc., and some of the chiefs, from pecuniary motives, no doubt, willingly leave their children to profit by the advantages of a gratuitous education in English.
-- Somehow or other, this avowal of Ayrton, and surrender of himself, so to speak, unconditionally, singularly touched his auditors, especially when the quartermaster added:"So I tell you beforehand, the bargain will be more to my profit than yours."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being himself childless, it was his openly ex-pressed desire that the whole country-side should, within his own lifetime, profit by his good fortune, and many will have personal reasons for bewailing his untimely end.
-- 'Did Barrymore profit at all by Sir Charles's will?'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The trouble with most of us Southerners," continued Rhett Butler, "is that we either don't travel enough or wedon't profit enough by our travels.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let him profit by the means as I found out?
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 94 Gulliver's TravelsThe short time I continued in England, I made a consider-able profit by showing my cattle to many persons of quality and others: and before I began my second voyage, I sold them for six hundred pounds.
-- I write without any view to profit or praise.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Travelers who bury themselves in the wilds and depths of the African desert, who seek profit and pleasure in the forests of the New World, are compelled to take it in turn to watch during the hours of sleep; but in this region of the earth absolute solitude and complete security reigned supreme.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But come!You must now study, and profit by, all that lies beyond it, like a practical man.'
-- 'And if any pleasure,' she said after a short pause, 'could arise for me out of the disappointment of my expectations that my son, in the prime of his life, would infuse new youth and strength into it, and make it of great profit and power, it would be in advancing an old and faithful servant.
-- 'You shall see how soon I will force myself to be recognised as a gentleman, and you shall profit by it.
-- You'll profit by it.
-- cried Flora, rising to give him a cordial reception, 'Doyce and Clennam what a start and a surprise for though not far from the machinery and foundry business and surely might be taken sometimes if at no other time about mid-day when a glass of sherry and a humble sandwich of whatever cold meat in the larder might not come amiss nor taste the worse for being friendly for you know you buy it somewhere and wherever bought a profit must be made or they would never keep the place it stands to reason without a motive still never seen and learnt now not to be expected, for as Mr F. himself said if seeing is believing not seeing is believing too and when you don't see you may fully believe you're not remembered not that I expect you Arthur Doyce and Clennam to remember me why should I for the days are gone but bring another teacup here directly and tell her fresh toast and pray sit near the fire.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It seems to me that Jo will profit more by taking the trial than by waiting,' said Mrs. March.
-- He did it so quietly that Jo never knew he was watching to see if she would accept and profit by his reproof, but she stood the test, and he was sat-isfied, for though no words passed between them, he knew that she had given up writing.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last we rose and dressed; and Queequeg, taking a prodigiously hearty breakfast of chowders of all sorts, so that the landlady should not make much profit by reason of his Ramadan, we sallied out to board the Pequod, sauntering along, and picking our teeth with halibut bones.
-- Had any one of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have wrenched the ship from such a fiendish man!They were bent on profitable cruises, the profit to be counted down in dollars from the mint.
-- Sperm, sperm's the play!This at least is duty; duty and profit hand in hand."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A fair profit is, of course, allowable.'
-- 'Of course, of course,' replied the undertaker; 'and if I don't get a profit upon this or that particular article, why, I make it up in the long-run, you see--he!he!he!'
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Unless Carrie submitted to a solemn round of industry and saw the need of hard work without longing for play, how was her coming to the city to profit them?
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I couldn't see no profit in it.
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