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A job, deal, or activity is lucrative when it brings in a lot of money. People use it for work and business, not for a small extra bit of pay: a lucrative law career, a lucrative contract, a lucrative side job.
A job, deal, or activity一份工作、一筆交易或一項活動 is lucrative算是lucrative（很賺錢），when it brings in a lot of money只要它能帶進很多錢。People人們 use it用這個字 for work and business是講工作和生意方面的事，not for a small extra bit of pay不是指一點額外的小外快：a lucrative law career很賺錢的律師生涯、a lucrative contract很賺錢的合約、a lucrative side job很賺錢的副業。
It sounds a little formal — you hear it in news and offices more than in chat among friends, who would just say it pays well.
It sounds a little formal這個字聽起來有點正式——you hear it你會在 in news and offices新聞和辦公室裡聽到它，more than比較少 in chat among friends在朋友聊天時聽到，who would just say他們大概只會說 it pays well很好賺。
It is mostly about the money, not about whether the work is good or kind. A thing can be lucrative and still feel empty, and people sometimes let that hang in the air.
It is mostly about the money它主要是在講錢的事，not about whether不是在講 the work is good or kind這份工作好不好、善不善良。A thing一件事 can be lucrative可以很賺錢 and still feel empty但還是讓人感覺空虛，and people有時候人們 sometimes let that hang in the air會讓這種感覺懸在那裡不說破。
It does not mean luxurious (that is about comfort and expensive things) and it does not mean lucky.
It does not mean它不代表 luxurious豪華（that is about那是在講 comfort and expensive things舒適和昂貴的東西）and it does not mean而且它也不代表 lucky幸運。
組成From French lucratif, from Latin lucrativus (“profitable”), from lucror (“to gain”), from lucrum (“gain”). On the surface, lucre + -ative.
同家族的字
- lucresame Latin lucrum, “gain”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lucrativeadj/ˈluː.kɹə.tɪv/
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Producing a surplus; profitable.
- Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
- In a given recent year, Celine has earned $40-$50 million from her various endeavors, though the majority of that income was thanks to a lucrative Las Vegas residency deal.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsOf a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.
- Command and Control centers and headquarters are strategically important and lucrative targets.
- Its troops can be widely dispersed as light infantry, using light anti-ship, anti-air and anti-land missiles and weapons to defenda given area or facility without presenting lucrative targets for air, missile, and artillery fire.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。