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外刊例句
- Graduate students are regularly lured away from their studies by lucrative jobs.
面对高薪工作的诱惑，研究生往往会放弃研究生涯。
——《经济学人》 - A niche business straddling journalism and oil is proving surprisingly lucrative.
横跨新闻业和石油业的利基业务利润之丰厚令人惊讶。
——《经济学人》
基本释义
[adjective] producing a great deal of profit
[形容词] 产生大量利润的
深入解读
Lucrative 一词对于小站（微信公众号：田间小站）的老铁们来说应该较为熟悉了，今年先后在 单词双拼 | 这份 sideline 很赚钱 和 小词详解 | attest 中出现过。
该词最早于15世纪初经古法语 lucratif （有利可图的）或直接由拉丁语 lucrativus （有报酬的、有利可图的）进入英语，即用来表示“赚大钱的、获利多的”，强调生意、交易、职位或活动等带来大量回报或利润，或者企业、事业等的成功超出最初的期望，比如：
- 我可以证实他的话是千真万确的。在如此一个不景气的时期，这份副业很赚钱。
I can attest to the absolute truth of his statement. In such a lean period, it was quite a lucrative sideline.
小说用例
He never appreciated being awoken early on a Saturday morning, but it was particularly distasteful that he had been called in to oversee the arrest of one of his most lucrative clients.
他从不喜欢周六早上一大早就被人叫醒，然而格外让他倒胃口的是，竟然叫他去监督逮捕他最赚钱的客户之一。
出自美国著名作家丹·布朗的悬疑惊悚小说《达芬奇密码》（The Da Vinci Code）。
同近义词
- profitable: (of a business or activity) yielding profit or financial gain
- gainful: serving to increase wealth or resources; providing money or other benefit
- remunerative: financially rewarding; lucrative
