We can afford to do something about climate change.

我们可以为气候变化做点事情。

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It is not something we can afford to do on a daily basis, and there aren't too many organic farms around here.

这不是我们每天都能负担得起的，而且附近也没有太多的有机农场。

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It seems that many of these readers are sympathetic to these businesses because they believe that providing healthcare benefits to their employees is just not something these companies can afford to do without damaging their businesses, despite the millions in profit that many of these operations rake in each year.

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Given the intrinsically high likelihood of failure, long-term survival requires the ability to advance a portfolio of products through clinical development, something that typically only fairly large companies can afford to do.

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But that is not something entrepreneurs or governments can afford to do.

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