profiteer

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I feel like a war-time profiteer.
我覺得自己就像一個(gè)戰(zhàn)時(shí)的奸商。
Nature is a short-term Darwinian profiteer.
自然是追求短期達(dá)爾文主義利益的投機(jī)商。
Mr Sanader told the court that he denied “the charge of being a war profiteer with repugnance.
薩納德告訴法庭他否認(rèn)“被指控是一名令人厭惡的戰(zhàn)時(shí)投機(jī)商。

Mammon is the profiteer. Mammon is the goldsmith's son who wants to invest his talents with labor and with hard work in order to showa profit.
貪神是一位逐利者，他是一名金匠的兒子，想要,用自己的才智，勞動(dòng)與汗水投資換取利潤(rùn)。
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Nefarious profiteer European bankers had forced all these loans on an unsuspecting populace.
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a person who takes advantage of a situation in which other people are suffering to make a profit, often by selling goods that are difficult to get at a high price

If you describe someone as a profiteer, you are critical of them because they make large profits by charging high prices for goods that are hard to get.