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释义
（买）得起（某物）；
双语例句
We can afford to overlook minor offences.
我们可以不计较小过。
I can't afford to spend any more on food.
用在食物上的钱，再多一点儿我也花不起了。
You can ill afford to criticize others when you behave so badly yourself.
本身行为不正，则不宜批评别人。
If he can afford a luxury yacht, then a fortiori he can afford to pay his debts.
他若能买得起豪华的快艇，就更能匀出钱来还债了。
She rationalized her decision to abandon her baby by saying she could not afford to keep it.
她为抛弃婴儿事辩称自己抚养不起。
Now you've been left some money you can afford to live it up a bit.
既然留有这些钱，你就可以痛快享受一番了。
We can't afford to have all this expensive machinery lying idle.
让所有这些机器闲置着，我们可负担不起损失。
No country can afford to neglect education.
任何国家都不容忽视教育。
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1. He could not afford to buy a house.
他买不起房子。
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2. Soon the villagers couldn't afford to buy food for themselves.
很快村民们就买不起吃的东西了。
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3. I couldn't afford to buy any, so I borrowed them from the library.
我一本也买不起，所以从图书馆借了这些。
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4. They couldn't afford to pay the bills.
他们付不起账。
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5. The firm cannot afford to carry passengers.
公司养不起白吃饭的人。
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6. We cannot afford to drop behind our competitors.
我们可担当不起落后于竞争对手的后果。
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7. She could well afford to pay for it herself.
她自己完全买得起。
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8. We cannot afford to be complacent about our health.
我们对我们的健康自满不起。
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9. I can't afford to run a car on my salary.
我的工资养不起汽车。
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10. She could no longer afford to keep him at school.
她再也供不起他上学了。
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11. It's possible he won't play but I can ill afford to lose him.
他有可能不会出场，但我难以承受失去他的损失。
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12. The house is cold because I can't afford to turn the heat on.
屋子冷冰冰的，因为我开不起暖气。
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13. How can we afford to buy a farm?
我们怎么买得起农场？
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14. Most people couldn't afford to do otherwise.
而大多数人都负担不起。
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15. They couldn't afford to buy young trees.
他们买不起幼小的树苗。
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16. The crunch is that we can't afford to go abroad this year.
症结在于我们今年担负不起出国的费用。
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17. We can't afford to wait.
我们等不起。
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18. The government cannot afford to alienate either group.
该政府承担不起冷落两个组织中的任何一个。
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19. These people could afford to retire to Florida but they'd just as soon stay put.
这些人能负担得起退隐到佛罗里达，但他们宁愿留在原地。
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20. They could ill afford to lose any more staff.
他们再也不能损失员工了。
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21. We could not afford to overlook such a serious offence.
对这样严重的违法行为，我们决不能视若无睹。
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22. She never took a taxi, even though she could afford to.
尽管她坐得起出租汽车，但她从未坐过。
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23. Only the extremely rich could afford to lunch at the Mirabelle.
只有大富豪才吃得起米拉贝尔饭店的午餐。
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24. We cannot afford to take risks when peoples' lives are at stake.
现在人命交关，不容我们有闪失。
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25. The shower that we put in a few years back has broken and we cannot afford to replace it.
我们几年前安装的淋浴器坏了，但没钱换新的。
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26. They could not afford to spoil those maps by careless colouring.
他们不敢用随意的涂色毁了那些地图。
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27. The truth (of the matter) is we can't afford to keep all the staff on.
实际情况是我们无力继续聘用所有的职员。
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28. The government cannot afford to be indifferent to public opinion.
政府不可不关注舆论。
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29. We can't afford to slip up.
我们疏忽不得。
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30. We cannot afford to ignore this warning.
我们对这个警告绝不能等闲视之。
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