It would make his fortune, he thought, as he hoisted his patched sails and set his course toward the southwest.
他扯起有补丁的船帆，开始向西南方向驶去，心想这下要发财了。He made fortunes the moment the farmer found oil in his land.
当在那个农民的土地发现了石油时，他一下子发财了。Once upon a time, there was a poor fisherman who always dreamed of becoming rich. He wished to become a millionaire, and so did his wife.
很久以前，有个贫穷的渔夫，总是梦想发财，他希望自己成为百万富翁，他妻子更是如此。If you get rich by selling goods to wastrels, do not expect to survive when your customers run out of money.
如果你是因为卖东西给不假思索的购物狂而发财的，那么就别想在你的客户没钱的时候生存下去。Indeed, seeing that his expenditure was only one-fourth of his income, he might have been called a prosperous man.
因为他的进款，只用四分之一就够他用度了，所以他实在可以算得上是一个发财的人。If you had cared enough about him to take an interest in his affairs, to find out what he needed, you would have been rich.
若是你曾经关心过的话，你现在已经是个富翁了。如果你对他足够关心、对他的事情感兴趣，并弄清楚他需要什么，那你就发财了；If I made just a fraction of what she does each year, mi'd be rich! But you'd probably spend it all before the year was out.
如果我只做她每年所做的一小部分的，我就发财了。可你没准还没过完一年就全花完了。But we each had our dreams and she knew the dreams that we each had and she played us like a fine violin.
她知道我们在做[发财]梦，所以我们要耍得迷迷糊糊。Fortune-telling of the general will say that when you make a fortune, it is clear this person is not telling the general public.
一般算命的都会说你什么时候发财，显然这个算命的人并不是一般人。