Some maybe cry excess profits, while others note that maximizing profit is the norm in a free market system.

有些人可能抗议超额的利润，而其他人则指出，利润最大化是自由市场体系的准则。

The natural gas companies — They made off with $11 billion in excess profits.

天然气公司——他们赚取了 110 亿美元的超额利润。

In the past year excess profits reached $4trn, or nearly 4% of global GDP (see chart 2).

去年，超额利润达到 4 万亿美元，相当于全球 GDP 的近 4%（见图 2）。

In Spain, where consumers' energy costs have soared, the government wants to seize what it describes as " excess profits" from utility companies to reduce household bills.

在西班牙，消费者的能源支出飙升，政府希望没收公用事业公司所谓的“超额利润”，用来减少家庭开支。

The Economist has come up with a crude estimate of " excess" profits for the world's 3,000 largest listed companies by market value (excluding financial firms).

《经济学人》对全球市值最大的 3,000 家上市公司（不包括金融公司）的“超额”利润进行了粗略估计。

Peter Styles of the European Federation of Energy Traders, a trade body, notes that Spain's scheme stops green-energy generators accruing excess profits to begin with, which will distort the way prices are set in the market.

欧洲能源贸易联合会(一个贸易团体)的彼得·斯泰尔斯指出，西班牙的计划从一开始就阻止了绿色能源发电企业获得超额利润，这将改变市场定价的方式。

An excess profits tax was laid upon all corporations and partnerships, rising in amount to sixty per cent of the net income in excess of thirty-three per cent on the invested capital.

对所有公司和合伙企业征收超额利润税，超过投资资本 33% 的净收入增加 60%。