部分的原因是，那些早期的利润是会计师们想像力虚构的一部分。

Part of the answer is that those earlier profits were in part a figment of the accountants’ imaginations.

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在本系列的第三部分中，我们创建了一个根据预算、利润和开支追踪虚构公司资产的表单。

In Part 3 of this series, you created a form to track the assets of your fictional company in terms of budgets, profit, and expenses.

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但是保守派智库美国企业研究所(American Enterprise Institut)的亚当·莱瑞克(Adam Lerrick)认为世行从借款中获得“利润”是虚构的。

But Adam Lerrick of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank, calls the bank's "profit" from lending a fiction.

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