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航空公司因有几架飞机暂时不能使用而正在赔钱. With several of their planes temporarily out of commission, the airline is losing money.
短期内我们会赔钱,但从长远看,利润将会是丰厚的。 In the short term we will lose money, but in the long term the profits will be very large.
这个公司做买卖赚钱[赔钱]. The firm is trading (ie doing business) at a profit/loss.
他哪里是在赔钱,他几乎无法计算其利润呢! Far from losing money, he can hardly count his profits.