| 词汇 | unaffordable |
| 释义 | unaffordable adjective uk /ˌʌn.əˈfɔː.də.bəl/ us /ˌʌn.əˈfɔːr.də.bəl/ C1 too expensive for people to be able to buy or pay for: 支付不起的 For many people, this type of treatment remains unaffordable.许多人支付不起这种治疗方法。 costing a lot of money expensiveHe thinks he's special with his expensive suits and fancy shoes. dearUKI find the veg too dear in that supermarket. costlyThey made several costly mistakes, including spending $60 million on shoddy machinery. priceyThe restaurants in town are a bit pricey. exclusiveThey have an apartment in an exclusive part of town. Costing too much bottomless pit capital intensive cheap cheap at half the priceidiom cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom cost someone a pretty pennyidiom cost someone dearidiom costliness daylight robbery dear exorbitant gouge outprice pretty price fixing price someone out price yourself out of the marketidiom prohibitive prohibitively sight You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Expensive & luxurious Examples of unaffordableunaffordable The overcrowding thus arose from the poverty which made rents unaffordable. Most insurance is provided via employers, who increasingly find the cost unaffordable. Rising fertilizer costs made them unaffordable for many smallholder farmers. From the perspective of the payer, the immediate, aggregate cost of the service may appear unaffordable. Examining the environmental, social, and psychological influences on health seems like unaffordable indulgence in the face of such a dangerous enemy. The former refers to services being unaffordable, the latter to services being unavailable or unsuitable. Both directions of this metaphorical inversion make environmental, social, or long-term analysis seem like unaffordable luxuries, for medicine and antiterrorism. Very often this is an unaffordable problem, and only random subsets of data can be analysed. A paradigm centred on piped individual connections evolved, which persisted even after the government declared it unaffordable from the 1970s. For one thing, the higher price may be unaffordable to those on low incomes (such as students). Inexpensive services of little effect have poor cost-effectiveness ratios; highly cost-effective services may nevertheless be unaffordable. For yet others, the political democracy was unaffordable if not unviable. In many developing world settings, such medicines may be unavailable or unaffordable for the majority of those who need them. The pressure of limited time and budget makes any research unaffordable and risky. The computation of the exact likelihood for a large pedigree with multiple loops is unaffordable in terms of computing power. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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