She spent a profitable afternoon in the library.

她在图书馆待了一个下午，颇有收获。

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A useful indicator of how profitable a company is relative to its total assets.

评估公司相对其总资产值的盈利能力的有用指标。

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It would take a miracle to make this business profitable.

让这个公司赢利简直是天方夜谭。

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But "Billboard's Boxscore" also shows a few musicians still had some very profitable concert tours this year.

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All this, of course, was fuelled by I mentioned it already--a transportation revolution symbolized by the Erie Canal, finished in 1825, which remained profitable all the way out into the 1880s.

当然,所有这些都是由于,我已经提过,1825开通的,伊利运河所带来的交通革命所导致的,这条运河直到十九世纪八十年代还在盈利

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We made a big bet against Internet stocks in 1999 and 2000 that was very profitable for the University.

999年和2000年我们大幅做空互联网股票,为学校赚得了很多利润

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If Rovio is a one-hit wonder, the company is ensuring it is as broad and profitable a wonder as possible.

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This huge amount of information now allows Harrah's Entertainment to predict how profitable a customer might be, even after only a few casino visits.

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Africa probably isn't is that profitable a run, but Willie Walsh 's British Airways and its various subsidiaries and franchises, Air France-KLM Group and Egyptair all stand to profit from Kinshasa's misfortune.

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