They eat flies? What a gross-out!
他们吃苍蝇？真恶心！
He claimed Mr. Brooke had been guilty of a "gross error of judgment."
他声称布鲁克先生犯有“判决上的重大过失”。
Investments showed a gross profit of 26%.
投资毛利为26%。
Proxies in place, the team dove into the data and came up with surprising results: Between 2002 and 2007 (the years covered by the database), public firms increased their gross fixed assets (as a percentage of total assets) by 4.0 percent a year on average versus 9.7 percent at similar private firms.
They say U.S. policymakers will need to lift taxes and cut spending to balance the federal budget, which has swung from a surplus of 2.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2000 to a deficit of just under 4 percent in 2003.
Today an investor can obtain the same net return with a lower gross (expected) return because that portion required as compensation for costs has been reduced.