It was a profitless business sitting there alone in the mill, listening to the fall the whole night through.
这是一个无利可图的生意, 一个人坐在磨坊里, 整夜聆听秋天的声音。
不可儿戏
Miss Prism. Alas! no. The manuscript unfortunately was abandoned. (Cecily starts.) I use the word in the sense of lost or mislaid. To your work, child, these speculations are profitless.