profiteer
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌprɒf.ɪˈtɪər]
- 美式音标 [ˌprɑː.fəˈtɪr]
- 国际音标 [,prɔfi'tiə]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- v. 牟取暴利,投机
- n. (贸易)奸商,牟取暴利者
词根记忆
- profit(利润) + eer(人)→只顾利益之人→奸商
- 来自profit(利润) + eer(人)→只追求利益之人→奸商
英汉例句
- I feel like a war-time profiteer.
我觉得自己就像一个战时的奸商。 - Nature is a short-term Darwinian profiteer.
自然是追求短期达尔文主义利益的投机商。 - Mr Sanader told the court that he denied “the charge of being a war profiteer with repugnance.
萨纳德告诉法庭他否认“被指控是一名令人厌恶的战时投机商。 - Mammon is the profiteer. Mammon is the goldsmith's son who wants to invest his talents with labor and with hard work in order to showa profit.
贪神是一位逐利者,他是一名金匠的儿子,想要,用自己的才智,劳动与汗水投资换取利润。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选 - Nefarious profiteer European bankers had forced all these loans on an unsuspecting populace.
FORBES: Greek Election: Does It Matter? - The manager was depicted as a controlling profiteer who had exploited Springsteen by forming a production company without giving the singer any equity in it.
FORBES: Steel Wrapped In Velvet - To convert the businessman into a profiteer is to strike a blow at capitalism, because it destroys the psychological equilibrium which permits the perpetuance of unequal rewards.
FORBES: The Social Deterioration of Funny, Floating Money
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词组短语
- The Profiteer 奸商;投机商
- to profiteer 捞一把;倒把
- speculative profiteer 投机倒把获暴利者;投机买卖获暴利者;翻译
- Corn Profiteer 奸商
- profiteer n 奸商
短语
英英字典
- a person who takes advantage of a situation in which other people are suffering to make a profit, often by selling goods that are difficult to get at a high price
- If you describe someone as a profiteer, you are critical of them because they make large profits by charging high prices for goods that are hard to get.
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专业释义
- 奸商
- 倒爷
- 投机商
- 投机倒把者