Gain

(noun.) the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating.

(verb.) increase (one's body weight); 'She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising'.

(verb.) increase or develop; 'the peace movement gained momentum'; 'the car gathers speed'.

(verb.) obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; 'The home team was gaining ground'; 'After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference'.

(verb.) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; 'How much do you make a month in your new job?'; 'She earns a lot in her new job'; 'this merger brought in lots of money'; 'He clears $5,000 each month'.

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• But her repetition of it would gain time--time for Frederick. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Then the wise and good will not desire to gain more than his like, but more than his unlike and opposite? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I try, but every day I lose a little, and feel more sure that I shall never gain it back. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The clocks thus controlled ought to be so regulated that if left to themselves they would always gain a little, but not more than a few minutes per day. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I attempted to gain time--nay, I did worse. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This victory gained, Rokesmith made haste to profit by it, for he saw how woefully time had been lost. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• And it gained its point after all, for I saw it through the window within a few minutes, being nursed by little Jane. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I gained the top of the stairs and ran along the passage. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Certainly, sir, said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly gained property under his arm. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Three brigades held the hill already gained. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• His whole gains, however, are commonly called profit, and wages are, in this case, too, confounded with profit. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• That is what happens when you telephone, but when you realize it the mystery gains rather than decreases. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Hence he was not ready to frame excuses for this deliberate pursuit of small gains. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In 1847, too, Russia began her tremendous march eastward into Central Asia, just as France was solidifying her first gains on the littoral of northern Africa. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I've no doubt his visit to England was paid for out of his ill-gotten gains. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• When the seeds in our fruits become atrophied, the fruit itself gains largely in size and quality. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• No one could remember it without gaining faith in the mystery, without the soul's warming with new, deep life-truSt. And Gerald! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• What thinkst thou of gaining fair lands and livings, by wedding a Saxon, after the fashion of the followers of the Conqueror? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The commercial motorcycle is said to be gaining widespread favor, and therein lies its greatest future. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Will not this be worth gaining? 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It is not a question of gaining a social advantage by a s mattering of foreign languages. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I asked him a few questions--but not with a view of gaining any particular information--all of which he answered, and I rode off. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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