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

为了表明公司赢利, 他篡改了公司的账目。

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

政府在根本不可能赢利的产业上继续投资，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.

但在以胜利者自居的公司声明和“快速赢利”的背后，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.

这真是一个辛苦的劳役，考验着一个人的全部官能，——这些赢利或损失的问题，利息的问题，扣除皮重的计算问题，一切都要字，非得有全宇宙的知识不可啊。