profiteering

noun

1. 牟取暴利
   the act of making a lot of money in an unfair way, for example by asking very high prices for things that are hard to get

1. N-UNCOUNT 牟取暴利；投机倒把
   Profiteering involves making large profits by charging high prices for goods that are hard to get.
   1. ...a wave of profiteering and corruption.
      投机倒把和腐败的风气

1. "The media profile can become toxic if they are seen to be overly profiteering or mercenary," Macleod said." They just need to be careful that they don't step on the wrong side of tastefulness. "
   “媒体关注也可能有害，如果他们被视为是过度谋利或唯利是图，”麦克劳德说，“他们必须小心，不能站到有品位的对立面。”
2. However, Chinese Internet users said these were excuses for profiteering, complaining that the prices of some attractions are higher than that of the world-renowned Louvre Museum.
   然而，网民回击称这些都是景区牟取暴利的借口，游客抱怨称，一些景点的价格比世界闻名的卢浮宫博物馆还要高。
3. This profiteering was outlawed in 1987.
   到了1987年，这种倒买倒卖的行为才被禁止。
4. Other government agencies, such as the powerful National Development and Reform Commission, argue inflation is a result of transport and infrastructure bottlenecks as well as profiteering and price manipulation.
   其它政府机构（如掌握实权的国家发改委）辩称，通胀是运输和基础设施瓶颈、以及投机和价格操纵的结果。
5. Then too, the values implicit in motherhood were bound to clash with the "male values" of competitiveness and devil-may-care profiteering.
   这样，母性中隐含的价值又必然与不顾一切地谋取暴利且具竞争性的“男性价值”起冲突。
6. Allegedly trained millionaire real estate industry is more than any in the social selection "profiteering industry," the real estate is always at one stroke earned them.
   据说房地产业造就的百万富翁比任何行业都多，在社会评选的“暴利行业”中，房地产业总是一举夺魁。
7. Cooperative Housing can end real estate market profiteering?
   合作建房能不能终结房地产市场的暴利？
8. Profiteering in exploration right or mining right shall be prohibited.
   禁止将探矿权、采矿权倒卖牟利。
9. The houses have become a few rich people's means of cornering and profiteering.
   住宅成了少数一些富人囤积居奇谋取暴利的手段。
10. The full tide of fury against those profiteering on government contracts had not yet risen, and Rhett's words were taken merely as evidence of his own bad breeding.
    当时反对凭政府合同牟利的怒潮还没有兴起，所以瑞德的话也仅仅被当作他自己缺德的明证罢了。
11. First, government should check the cornering and profiteering in the real estate market.
    首先，政府应该遏制房地产市场囤积居奇以谋取暴利的行为。
12. It is invidious profiteering those hospitals.
    那些医院简直就是惟利是图。
13. While opposing profiteering and monopoly, we should still allow businessmen to make some money.
    我们反对投机垄断，也要允许商人赚点钱。
14. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals.
    我们并不是在犯罪，我们只是在免费使用服务，这些服务要不是因为那些敛财狂本可以是非常廉价的。
15. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the potential profiteering may be part of the price for stabilising the financial system.
    众议院金融服务委员会主席巴尼弗兰克（barneyfrank）表示，潜在的牟取暴利行为，可能是为了稳定金融体系而必须付出的代价之一。
16. A rational society should draw a line Between legitimate profit-making and exploitative profiteering.
    一个理性的社会总应该在正当盈利与暴利剥削之间有一条界限。
17. The people will stop your profiteering schemes, and the people will win.
    人民将阻止你们牟取暴利的诡计，人民必胜。
18. Is this not shocking profiteering?
    这不是吓死人的剥削吗？
19. The government is making a belated attempt to stop profiteering.
    政府正试图制止投机获利，但为时已晚。
20. Public outrage erupted this month in China over profiteering in the funeral industry, and the outcry even spilled into the state-controlled press on the traditional tomb-sweeping festival, when Chinese honour the dead.
    民众对殡葬业暴利行为的愤怒在本月爆发，甚至国有媒体也在祭奠亡者的传统节日清明节发出了反对的声音。
21. Rent controls were introduced to prevent profiteering.
    为了防止牟取暴利而实行了租金管制。
22. Profiteering: What can I gain from this?
    暴利牟取论：我能从中获得什么好处？
23. The pharmaceutical company has been charged with profiteering from the AIDS crisis.
    这家药物公司被指控从爱滋病危机中牟取暴利。
24. The central bank canceled the pre-sale housing proposals can end property profiteering?
    央行取消房屋预售建议能否终结房产暴利？
25. A person of a rapacious, predatory, or profiteering nature.
    贪婪的人具有贪婪、凶残或逐利性格的人。
26. He was tarred with profiteering brush. Using other people for one's own profit is immoral.
    他因谋取不正当的利益而声名狼籍。利用别人来谋取私利是不道德的。
27. The profiteering problem of non-profit organizations refers to that the NPO deviate their non-profit principle.
    非营利组织的营利问题是指非营利组织对其非营利性原则的背离。
28. Completely prohibit Japanese goods. Suppress profiteering merchants and ban speculation and manipulation of the market.
    禁绝日货，取缔奸商，反对投机操纵。
29. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-? Business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
    我们同商业金融的垄断势力、机倒把分子、顾后果的银行作业、级敌对、系倾轧、战争财行为进行了斗争，它们是和平的宿敌。