这话说得实在太绕了。。。以前不是有人说最好的语言就是简单明了吗？
"...The purpose of the scheme was to make a profit, even though the motive for making the profit was to lay the foundation for a test case. It hardly needs saying that the motive with which a profit is made is irrelevant to the question whether the scheme which yielded the profit was a profit- making scheme..."