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With no video production costs, illegal streaming sites have achieved profit margins approaching 90%, according to the Motion Picture Association (MPA), a trade group representing Hollywood studios that’s working to crack down on the thousands of illegal platforms that have cropped up in recent years.

据美国电影协会（MPA）称，由于没有视频制作成本，非法流媒体网站的利润率已接近90%；美国电影协会是代表好莱坞各制片公司的行业组织，正致力于打击近年来涌现的数以千计的非法平台。

wood producers’ motive to maximise profits.

木材生产商追求利润最大化的动机。

By cutting out the middleman, the farmers secure more profit for their produce.

通过去掉中间商，农民为自己的农产品赚取了更多利润。

profit

利润

Decline of business profits.

商业利润下降。

leak user information for profit.

为牟利泄露用户信息

“They casually dismiss the career work of scholars and scientists as just another misguided opinion,” says Dan Quinn, senior communications strategist at the Texas Freedom Network, a non-profit group that monitors public education.

“他们轻率地把学者和科学家毕生的工作当作又一种被误导的观点而不予理会，”得克萨斯自由网络的高级传播策略师丹·奎因说，该组织是一个监督公共教育的非营利团体。

A study last year by the National Center for Science Education, a non-profit group of scientists and teachers, looking at how state public schools across the country address climate change in science classes, gave barely half of US states a grade B+ or higher.

由科学家和教师组成的非营利团体——美国国家科学教育中心去年开展了一项研究，考察全国各州公立学校如何在科学课上讲授气候变化，结果只有勉强一半的州获得了B+或更高的评级。

“You have the importation of terminology that historically used to be associated with non-profit organizations and religious organizations: terms like vision, values, passion, and purpose,” said Khurana.

库拉纳说：“企业引入了历史上常与非营利组织和宗教组织联系在一起的术语，比如愿景、价值观、激情和目标。”

During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds — including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate — varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

20世纪90年代末，各国在社会科学和人文学科上的支出占全部研发经费（包括政府、高等教育、非营利机构和企业的经费）的比例从约4%到25%不等；在大多数欧洲国家，这一比例约为15%。

The peculiar part is that the journal that the editor is supposedly working for is not profiting at all — it is just providing citations to other journals.

奇怪的是，编辑理应为之效力的期刊根本没有从中获益——它只是在为其他期刊提供引用。

Ever since taking on Netflix Inc. at its own game, old Hollywood has struggled to turn a profit in streaming, with the likes of Disney+, Peacock and Paramount+ losing billions of dollars each year, sparking concerns that the services will never be as profitable as cable once was.

自从在流媒体领域与奈飞公司正面交锋以来，老牌好莱坞一直难以在流媒体业务上盈利，Disney+、Peacock和Paramount+等平台每年亏损数十亿美元，引发了人们的担忧：这些服务永远不会像有线电视曾经那样赚钱。