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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He appears to have been one of those Russian parasites who lead an idle existence abroad, spending the summer at some spa, and the winter in Paris, to the greater profit of the organizers of public balls.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Your sceptre of the god and your wreath shall profit you nothing.
-- Grant-ed that it is as you say; I mean to have it so; sit down and hold your tongue as I bid you for if I once begin to lay my hands about you, though all heaven were on your side it would profit you nothing.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How can such a wish be doubted!Have I not already of-fered ' 'Offer your prayers to Him who can give us wisdom to circumvent the cunning of the devils who fill these woods,' calmly interrupted the scout, 'but spare your offers of mon-ey, which neither you may live to realize, nor I to profit by.
-- The instant David discovered that he battled with a dis-putant who imbibed his faith from the lights of nature, eschewing all subtleties of doctrine, he willingly aban-doned a controversy from which he believed neither profit nor credit was to be derived.
-- They were fol-lowed at a little distance by the scout, with a view to profit early by their report, and to obtain some faint knowledge for himself of the more immediate localities.
-- He was alone, if the solitary sentinel who paced the mound be excepted; for the artillerists had hastened also to profit by the temporary suspension of their arduous duties.
-- An Englishman afraid to sup-port a friend, and a Frenchman too honest to profit by his advantage.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were clerks and shopgirls; old fellows who might have stepped out of the pages of Honore de Balzac; members, male and female, of the professions which make their profit of the frailties of mankind.
-- She made up her mind to profit by her acquaintance with so many writers, and without loss of time began to learn shorthand and typewriting.
-- Strickland had no papers, but that was not a matter to disconcert Tough Bill when he saw a profit (he took the first month's wages of the sailor for whom he found a berth), and he provided Strickland with those of an English stoker who had providentially died on his hands.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it was so, the engineer thought that it might perhaps be possible to utilize this fall and borrow its power, actually lost without profit to any one.
-- They had to profit by the low tide to cross the Channel, and it was agreed that they would construct, for this purpose, as well as they could, a boat which would render communication so much easier, and would also permit them to ascend the Mercy, at the time of their grand exploration of the southwest of the island, which was put off till the first fine days.
-- For several hours, therefore, there would be a current, which it was well to profit by, for later the ebb would make it difficult to ascend the river.
-- They were then mere castaways, not even knowing how they should preserve their miserable lives from the fury of the elements!And now, thanks to the knowledge of their captain, and their own intelligence, they were regular colonists, furnished with arms, tools, and instruments; they had been able to turn to their profit the animals, plants, and minerals of the island, that is to say, the three kingdoms of Nature.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A third, who in the general confusion could secure no other listener, fastened herself upon a young woman still unmarried who happened to be amongst them, and conjured her, as she valued her own peace of mind and happiness to profit by this solemn occasion, to take example from the weakness of Mrs Quilp, and from that time forth to direct her whole thoughts to taming and subduing the rebellious spirit of man.
-- This silent homage to his superior abilities, no less than a sense of the power with which the dwarf's quick perception had already invested him, inclined the young man towards that ugly worthy, and determined him to profit by his aid.
-- And so well did Nell profit by her instructions, and so apt was she to remember them, that by the time they had been shut up together for a couple of hours, she was in full possession of the history of the whole establishment, and perfectly competent to the enlightenment of visitors.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was silent, thinking how to profit by him.
-- Maria Pablovna walked, because she yielded her place on the wagon to a pregnant woman; Simonson, because he would not profit by class advantages.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am afraid I led that boy a dog's life, for as he was new to the work, I had a hundred opportunities of setting him right and putting him down, and I was not slow to profit by them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It contains treasures of science, and I shall profit by them."
-- I speak in the present, `We are here, and we must profit by it.'"
-- On the other side, prudence bids us profit by the first opportunity to leave the Nautilus."
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