None of businessmen can sacrifice his lasting reputation to chase the immediate profit.

没有一个做买卖的人会牺牲久远的名声去追逐眼下的利益。

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It's selfish of them to prefer their own immediate profit to what will benefit us all in the future.

他们只顾自己的眼前利益而不管将来能对我们大家都有好处的事情，真是太自私勒。

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Local merchants get an immediate injection of cash, and pure profit if customers pay for the coupons but never use them.

如果顾客购买了优惠券而未使用，当地商家就获得了现金注入，得到了纯利润。

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Textfree turned an immediate profit for the then-fledgling startup in December 2009.

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ISOs can usually be exercised at a price below the current market price and thus provide an immediate profit for the employee.

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But he wants to explore unproven ideas that are not likely to be pursued by governments, and which almost surely wouldn't be pursued by corporations since there is no immediate path to profit.

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