Lucrative 一词对于小站（微信公众号：田间小站）的老铁们来说应该较为熟悉了，今年先后在单词双拼 | 这份 sideline 很赚钱和小词详解 | attest中出现过。该词最早于15世纪初经古法语lucratif（有利可图的）或直接由拉丁语lucrativus（有报酬的、有利可图的）进入英语，即用来表示“赚大钱的、获利多的”，强调生意、交易、职位或活动等带来大量回报或利润，或者企业、事业等的成功超出最初的期望，

比如：

I can attest to the absolute truth of his statement. In such a lean period, it was quite a lucrative sideline.我可以证实他的话是千真万确的。在如此一个不景气的时期，这份副业很赚钱。

He never appreciated being awoken early on a Saturday morning, but it was particularly distasteful that he had been called in to oversee the arrest of one of his most lucrative clients.小说用例

The Da Vinci Code ）。他从不喜欢周六早上一大早就被人叫醒，然而格外让他倒胃口的是，竟然叫他去监督逮捕他最赚钱的客户之一。出自美国著名作家丹·布朗的悬疑惊悚小说《达芬奇密码》（

profitable: (of a business or activity) yielding profit or financial gain gainful: serving to increase wealth or resources; providing money or other benefit remunerative: financially rewarding; lucrative同近义词