The man who now makes a personal profit of not far from $50,000,000 a year in this industry was a puttering mechanic when the twentieth century came in.

现在在这个行业中每年赚取近 5000 万美元个人利润的人在 20 世纪到来时是一名推杆技师。

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

她要求事物投她所好；凡是不能立刻满足她心灵需要的，她都认为没有用处；她多愁善感，而不倾心艺术，她寻求的是主观的情，而不是客观的景。