profiteers

英 [ˌprɒfɪˈtɪəz]

美 [ˌprɑfəˈtɪrz]

n.  奸商; 投机商; 牟取暴利的人
profiteer的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 奸商；投机商；牟取暴利的人
  If you describe someone as aprofiteer, you are critical of them because they make large profits by charging high prices for goods that are hard to get.
  1. ...a new social class composed largely of war profiteers and gangsters.
     主要由战争投机商和强盗组成的新的社会阶层

双语例句

• After a huge financial crisis and a long list of scandals, banks are now viewed as incompetent profiteers run by spivs.
  在一场严重的金融危机和一系列丑闻之后，如今银行被视为由骗子经营的不称职的投机商。
• Will give them the money and technology just to keep the War profiteers gong.
  给他们资金和技术以使战争奸商发财吗？
• Whoever profiteers from train and ship tickets, when the circumstances are serious, is to be sentenced to not more than three years of fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention or control
  倒卖车票、船票，情节严重的，处三年以下有期徒刑、拘役或者管制
• The profiteers cheated people right and left.
  奸商净坑人。
• In European literature, Jews are usually characterized as usurers and profiteers who are avaricious, mean, cunning and full of anxiety.
  在欧洲文学作品中，犹太人一般以贪婪、守财、狡黠、多虑的高利贷者、投机奸商等形象出现，且处于陪衬基督徒形象的从属地位。
• While millions were fighting and dying, the profiteers were lining their pockets.
  数百万人在打仗捐躯，而奸商们却趁机发不义之财。
• The 2010 gold bubble is fuelled by a combination of five main factors: historically cheap cost of borrowing, a prolonged bull market, early profiteers, marketing hype and the risk being ignored.
  今年的黄金泡沫是五个主要因素的共同作用的结果：以历史标准来衡量较为廉价的借贷成本，长时间的牛市，提前入市的投机者，大肆炒作，以及被忽视的风险。
• Profiteers cashed in during the gasoline shortage. Hong Kong Association of Petroleum Product Dealers Limited
  投机商人利用石油短缺大捞一笔香港石油产品代理商会有限公司
• Small farms were increasingly replaced by large estates owned by rich generals and profiteers and worked by slaves.
  小农场越来越被富有的将军们、投机商暴发户们拥有的大块地产所代替，并由奴隶们工作。
• The profiteers who bleed consumers for money by hook or by crook are bound to come to grief in time.
  不择手段榨取消费者钱财的奸商终将受到惩罚。