Chocolate remained a drink that only wealthy people could afford to drink until the eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

That is to say not even the best city on Aristotle's account can afford to be without a foreign policy.

这也就说明,就算是亚里士多德笔中的最佳之城,也承受不起没有外交政策的后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But when you look at the bill, it is very expensive and you can't afford to pay that.

但当你看见账单时，你才发现这太贵了，你负担不起。

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And,U2's manager says the band has worked hard to make sure tickets are lower in cost than in the past so that fans can afford to attend the shows.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

Once they discovered their moral freedom, once they discovered that they could thwart God and work evil in the world, and abuse and corrupt all that God had created, then God could not afford to allow them access to the tree of life.

一旦他们意识到了，道德自由,一旦他们违背上帝，开始作恶,摧残，腐化，上帝的创造物,上帝便不准他们再接近生命树。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

President Barack Obama has repeatedly described the conflict in Afghanistan as one that the United States cannot afford to lose.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

One is, he can't afford to have his hoplite line outflanked, because if I can come around and take care of this guy from this side, he is engaged with a guy who's right opposite him, I can just kill him no problem at all.

一点是,他不能让方阵的侧翼被包围,因为如果我调转方向,从这边对付他,他正在和正面的敌人交战,我干掉他就是小菜一碟儿

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Analysts say the armed forces and its supporters are a political constituency that the Kremlin cannot afford to ignore.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

So Kurt Russell and his friends attend a small private college, which cannot afford to buy a computer.

所以Kurt，Russell和他的朋友,参加了一个小的私立学院，那里买不起一台电脑。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

This debate is not a game for these Americans, and they cannot afford to wait any longer for reform,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

even if they can't afford to actually come here and, you know, do the whole thing.

即使他们没钱来，没法经历整个过程。

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In some African countries, health officials say they can't afford to meet international standards for AIDS treatment.

VOA: standard.2010.07.17

Then you really won't be able to afford to stay alive.

说不定你连活下去都很困难

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"That is how the great depression deepened. That is a mistake we cannot afford to repeat."

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

So if you can make 100 tons of the drug but it costs $100,000 a gram that might not be a useful drug because nobody could afford to use it.

虽然你能制造一百吨药,但每克药得十万美元,这药就没什么用,因为没人能用得起它

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

This is presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs "Many may believe that we can't afford to do anything,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The long-term fiscal challenge is largely a product of promises in our entitlement programs, medicare, medicate and social security that we have made the future generations that we cannot afford to keep.

长期财政挑战很大一部分原因,是我们承诺了很多津贴项目，我们承诺给下一代的,医疗保险和社会保险,而现在我们又没法兑现。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

But he cannot afford to pay for the three-year distance-learning qualification program offered by the government.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But yeah, I mean, nobody now with...there's no way we can afford to buy now

但是，我想说，现在我们就没办法买得起它了，

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He says he has plenty of produce to sell, but few can afford to buy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Would you be happy if you could afford to buy lots of brand-name products?

如果你买得起很多名牌产品，你会觉得幸福吗？

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"I know some question whether we can afford to act this year. But the unmistakable truth is that it would be irresponsible to not act.

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

Or this community that doesn't have safe drinking water so regularly children die of diarrhea because they cannot afford to treat their water, they don't have the fuel to boil their water or something.

可能还有这样一个地方，那里没有安全的饮用水,孩子们时常死于痢疾,因为他们拿不出钱对水进行处理，也没有燃料来把水烧开。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Smith says the U.S.and its allies cannot afford to lose to the other camp.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

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.

现在，我们已没有能力,去限制两亿人口，让他们，脱离劳动力，让他们脱离信息,知识或文化素养。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

Dunn says few people in Overtown can afford to buy fresh, organic produce.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

Someone figured out at the median contribution that got you invited to stay a night in the Lincoln bedroom, Bill Gates could afford to stay in the Lincoln bedroom every night for the next sixty six thousand years.

有人算出来,按能受邀在林肯卧室留宿一夜,所需捐款额的中位数计算，比尔·盖茨完全付得起在林肯卧室,住上6万6千年。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

but,we can't afford to wait for long." Meir Javedanfar of the MEEPAS center in Tel Aviv says that the Sejil 2 missile is nothing for the West to worry about.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

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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or rich people who can afford to have lots of plastic surgery.

或者是有那些有钱做很多整形手术的富人。

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