1. To run a restaurant is a lucrative business. 经营餐厅是赚钱的生意。
2. During the 1960s and 1970s, politicians in my native country, India, used to wave the slogan "Stop the Brain Drain" — a reference to the fact that the cream of India was leaving for the lucrative shores of England and America. 在20世纪60和70年代,我的祖国印度的政客们常常喊着"制止人才外流"的口号, 它所指的实际上是这样一个事实: 印度的精英们正在离开印度,到能够赚钱的国家——英国和美国去。