词组 | profit |
释义 | profit The verb profit is followed most often by from when it takes a prepositional-phrase complement: • Scholarship would profit greatly from a more painstaking examination of manuscripts —Eugene S. McCartney, Recurrent Maladies in Scholarly Writing, 1953 • ... his battle descriptions would sometimes have profited from consultation of the official records — Lynn Montross, NY. Times Book Rev., 19 Sept. 1954 • ... both Hawthorne and Thoreau profited more from their acquaintanceship than has been generally allowed —Earle Labor, CEA Critic, January 1971 Almost as frequently, profit is used with by: • ... their descendants, who profited by the industrial development —American Guide Series: Michigan, 1941 • ... whenever Miss Clark lets herself go her book profits by it —Sean O'Faolain, Books of the Month, April 1953 • ... should get as much liberal education as he can intellectually absorb and profit by —Cormac Philip, CEA Critic, November 1954 |
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