He juggled the company's accounts to show a profit.

为了表明公司赢利, 他篡改了公司账目。

The Government was throwing good money after bad by investing money in industries that would never make a profit.

政府在可能赢利产业上继续投资，简直就是往无底洞里扔钱。

But underneath the triumphalist statements and the quick profits lies a system that has cost retail investors dear in the past.

但在以胜利者自居公司声明和“快速赢利”背后，户投资者以前曾为这种方式付出沉重代价。

It is a labor to task the faculties of a man — such problems of profit and loss, of interest, of tare and tret,(8) and gauging of all kinds in it, as demand a universal knowledge.

这真是一个辛苦劳役，考验着一个人全部官能，——这些赢利或问题，利息问题，扣除皮重计算问题，一切都要确实数字，非得有全宇宙知识可啊。