When a bird earns some money, it's almost all clear profit.

一只鸟儿在赚到点钱的同时，几乎就等于得到了和他所赚的钱同样多的纯利润。

They could sell them for $40 apiece and perhaps clear a profit of $700.

他们可以把每块电路板卖40美元，这样的话利润大概是700美元。

In a country where the ordinary rate of clear profit is eight or ten per cent.

在一个普通净利润率为 8% 或 10% 的国家。

The interest which the borrower can afford to pay is in proportion to the clear profit only.

借款人能够支付的利息只与净利润成正比。

The proportion which the usual market rate of interest ought to bear to the ordinary rate of clear profit, necessarily varies as profit rises or falls.

通常的市场利率与通常的净利润率的比例必然随着利润的上升或下降而变化。

The payment of the bill, when it becomes due, replaces to the bank the value of what had been advanced, together with a clear profit of the interest.

票据到期时，向银行支付的票据价值连同明确的利息利润。

It is commonly said that a sugar planter expects that the rum and the molasses should defray the whole expense of his cultivation, and that his sugar should be all clear profit.

人们常说，甘蔗种植园主希望朗姆酒和糖蜜能支付他种植的全部费用，而他的蔗糖应该是净利润。

But the proportion between interest and clear profit might not be the same in countries where the ordinary rate of profit was either a good deal lower, or a good deal higher.

但在普通利润率低很多或高很多的国家，利息和净利润之间的比例可能不一样。

If this be true, for I pretend not to affirm it, it is as if a corn farmer expected to defray the expense of his cultivation with the chaff and the straw, and that the grain should be all clear profit.

如果这是真的，因为我假装不肯定，这就好像一个玉米农希望用谷壳和稻草来支付他的耕种费用，而谷物应该都是明显的利润。