afford
负担得起,负担,买得起,负担得起的
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- : to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence or adverse effect: The country can't afford another drought.
- : to be able to meet the expense of; have or be able to spare the price of: Can we afford a trip to Europe this year? The city can easily afford to repair the street.
- : to be able to give or spare: He can't afford the loss of a day.
- : to furnish; supply: The transaction afforded him a good profit.
- : to be capable of yielding or providing: The records afford no explanation.
- : to give or confer upon: to afford great pleasure to someone.
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Examples
The equal protection women enjoyed, according to the Supreme Court, wasn’t as strong as the protection that the Constitution afforded against racial discrimination.
At some point we can’t afford some of our employees because we don’t have money coming in from our clients.
The most advanced AI techniques require an enormous amount of computational resources, which increasingly only the wealthiest companies can afford.
His family could not afford to send his grandmother to a nursing home with services like physical therapy.
There’s a certain part of the public that can afford it, and those sort of people want to know where the product is coming from.
The irony has thinned with the economy, perhaps: Who can really afford just to pretend to DIY today?
His stepfather had left his mother and they could no longer afford the house in which they lived.
As a matter of dollars and cents, America in the short term may be able to afford disability and food stamps.
It represented everything about the kind of comfort and the little luxuries in life that a good glass of Scotch can afford us.
Selling off the extras, I saw my neighbor marvel at the scent and murmur that he wished he could afford one.
I doubt if the modern community can afford to continue it; it certainly cannot to extend it very widely.