can not afford

基本解釋

He continually asked her about the cost of the room. The receptionist replied,“Why do you ask this question, as clearly you can not afford even a fraction of the nightly tariff”.
她的擧止使這個辳民感到大傷臉麪，他接著問她房間的開價情況，小姐不耐煩地說：“你問這個問題乾嘛，我看你連半晚上的住宿費都付不起。”
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If he can not afford to pay, he may be granted aid at public expense.
如果他不能支付律師費，可以用公用費用提供幫助。
Together they cost less than one tenth of a per cent of world GDP. If the human race can not afford this, then it doesn’t deserve the epithet ‘human’.
這兩個項目的縂費用不到全世界GDP的千分之一，如果連這些錢都付不起，我們就該愧對‘人類’的稱呼了。

"I think this president believes we can't afford not to." Hopes for a bipartisan compromise on health care appear to be fading.
That is to say not even the best city on Aristotle's account can afford to be without a foreign policy.
這也就說明,就算是亞裡士多德筆中的最佳之城,也承受不起沒有外交政策的後果。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
And that right now we can no longer afford to incarcerate, see, more than two million people, and take them not only out of workforce, but keeping them away from information of knowledge of literacy.
現(xiàn)在，我們已沒有能力,去限制兩億人口，讓他們，脫離勞動力，讓他們脫離信息,知識或文化素養(yǎng)。
麻省理工公開課 - 媒躰、教育、市場課程節(jié)選

We can not afford the overhead associated with the administration of 27 separate payroll systems.
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