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

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

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

And you ask about India's relationship to China India cannot afford to alienate China China is far too powerful and a significant dynamic a country, so whether the United States think of them as adversary or not India does not think so.

你还问到中印的关系,印度不能疏离中国,因为中国非常强大，经济发展,非常迅速，所以不论美国,有没有把中国视为敌人,印度都不会与中国敌对。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

The legislation would require most Americans to purchase health insurance and provide subsidies to those who cannot afford it.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

"We have difficult times. We cannot afford everything we wish for if we want to create the future."

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

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

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

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

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

He cannot afford health care. So he comes regularly to this free clinic run by the Inner City Muslim Action Network, also known as IMAN.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

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

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

"They have seen what happens when patients do not come in for regular check-ups or screenings because either their insurance company does not cover it, or they cannot afford insurance in the first place,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.05