It cuts what we can't afford to pay for what we cannot do without.

提议的预算削减我们无力支付的项目，省下钱来支付不能没有的项目。

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I can't afford to pay for this. I'm down to my last five hundred dollars.

我可付不起这笔钱，我只剩下最后五百美元了。

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I really need to call home but I can't afford to pay for the roaming charges.

我很想打个电话回家，但是漫游费太贵了。

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"Unlike the federal government, our states have to balance their budgets, and they can't print more money to pay for programs they can't afford,".

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You can't fight as a hoplite, in other words, unless you can afford to pay for your equipment and that excludes a goodly number of citizens who are too poor to fight in the phalanx.

换句话说,你不能加入步兵方阵,除非你自己能出钱买装备,这样有相当多的公民,会因为贫穷无法在方阵中战斗

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and for whatever reason they can't afford to pay the rent anymore.

但因为各种各样的原因，他们无法继续支付租金。

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But they can't afford to pay for any more after that, so they are planning to leave their home of 27 years and rent a flat in Newcastle because in England they can get the drug for free.

BBC: Maureen Fleming

And as everyone knows, with fuel prices as high as they're getting anymore, you can't hardly afford to haul cows off, pay for pasture to feed 'em and then haul 'em back home...

NPR: Fires Scorch Nebraska Cattle Industry

Who cares if you can't afford to send your children to college or pay for your health insurance premium or what you owe on your house is more than what it's worth?

CNN: Carville: What if the rich lost 40% of their wealth?