adjective
- too expensive to be afforded by the average person
（普通人）付不起的；高价的
medical care has become unaffordable.
医疗费用高得叫人无法承受。
unaffordable
■The downside: The city is still unaffordable for many, and the less-pricey suburbs can impose enervating commutes.
不利方面：对许多人来说生活成本仍然太高，郊区房价虽然没那么贵，但上下班很累。
■I am not sure whether it is because of the fear for living alone in a stranger city or because of the unaffordable apartment rent.
不知道是因为担心一个人在外会孤独还是因为房租的问题心悬在空中。
■They misallocated capital, with massive amounts going into housing that was ultimately unaffordable.
他们错误的配置资本，把大量的钱用于根本无法支付的房屋上。
■The challenge is not whether they can afford it (what’s unaffordable to them?), but how nicely and elegantly the license plates read.
价钱从来不是问题，问题只是如何可以更够型更够格。
■But it is still unaffordable for most Chinese AIDS patients especially those in rural areas.
但对国内绝大多数患者、特别是农村地区的病人来说，仍然难以承受。抗病毒治疗药物可望而不可及。
■But that is often an unaffordable dream for young girls who live in foster care.Many were taken away from their families because of abuse, abandonment or neglect.
但是，对那些生活在寄养家庭的女孩来说，流行衣物通常是一个不可能实现的梦想。
■Public spending can stay high, but further increases would be unaffordable in most countries.
公共支出仍然费用高昂，若继续上升，一些国家将无法支撑。
■India, Japan and the U.S. repeatedly deliver unaffordable and ineffective spending proposals.
印度、日本和美国不断地提出代价高昂和无效的政府支出方案。
■Even for six year olds, homework 3 to 4 hours a day, seven days a week, makes playtime an unaffordable luxury.
即使对六岁的孩子说来，每周七天，每天做三四小时的回家作业使玩耍的时间变成担负不起的奢侈品。
■And for many rural residents the higher levels of schooling are becoming unaffordable.
同时对许多农村居民来说接受高等教育的费用已经渐渐超出他们的支付能力范围。
■Before NHI, 10 patients had incomplete treatment, mainly because of unaffordable medical fees.
在全民健康保险实施之前，有10位病人无法接受完整的治疗，主要是无法负担医疗费用。
■When it comes to health care, we don't have to choose between a government-run system and the unaffordable one we have now.
在医疗问题上，我们不必在**运营的体系和目前这种我们难以负担的体系之间进行选择。
■" Among those identified as middle class and "underinsured," one in three said that health care is "completely" or "mostly" unaffordable.
在这些中产阶级和“保险额不足”的人中，每三个人就有一个说医疗“完全”或者“大部分”负担不起。
■"The students of these schools have to pay quite a large amount of money for school facilities as well as additional expenses, which are unaffordable for common salary-earning families.
在这些学校学习的学生得交一大笔额外费用和设施费用，而这笔钱对于普通工薪家庭来说是无法承受的。
■If we do not dispose the waste computer properly, it will cause heavy contamination to air, water and soil, and do great harm to human health, the results will be unaffordable for the human being.
如果对这些废旧电脑处理不当,将对大气、水源、土壤造成严重污染,对人类健康造成巨大的危害,其后果不堪设想。
■And if the price of gas falls so far that drilling becomes unaffordable, Pinedale will not just lose the backbone of its economy.It will have lost some of its natural beauty, too.
如果将来天然气的价格不断下降以至于开采活动已经无法承受的时候，派恩代尔失去的不仅是经济的基础，同时也会丧失部分当地的美景。
■And for many countries, namely, mostly low-income countries, this bill is just unaffordable.
对于很多国家来说，即大部分的低收入国家，这钱是付不起的。”
■So will the better health of an ageing population, good as it has been for so many, impose unaffordable costs on public-health budgets?
尽管老龄化人口更为良好的健康状况对许多人都有好处，但这是否会给公共健康预算带来无法负担的负担？
■When it comes to health care, we don't have to choose between a -run system and the unaffordable one we have now.
当涉及到医疗保健，我们没有选择政府的运行系统和一个我们现在买不起的系统。
■When more and more families find college unaffordable, more and more students are making decisions that may be cost-effective but are skill-inefficient.
当越来越多的家庭无法支付大学学费，更多的学生做出的决策也许能节约成本，但在技能方面却无法得到提高。
■medical care that has become unaffordable for many.
很多人已经承担不起的医疗看护
■When it comes to health care, we dont have to choose between a government-run system and the unaffordable one we have now.
我的计划则会让医疗保健成为每个美国人都负担得起、享受得到的服务。
■Not only were public pensions systems becoming unaffordable in Asia, they were also inadequate for most pensioners, it said.
报告称，亚洲国家不仅在逐渐变得无力支付公共养老金，并且对大多数领取养老金生活的人来说，当前数额已显不足。
■According to a senior economic official last week, many government policy makers think lower prices are desirable because home ownership had become unaffordable.
按照上周一名资深经济事务官员所说，许多政府政策制定者认为低房价是合乎情理的，因为拥有房屋已经变得难以付得起了。
■The fiscal conservative who once tackled Mr Bush over his unaffordable tax cuts now proposes not just to keep the cuts, but to deepen them.
曾经力阻布什令人难以承受的减税方案的财政保守主义者目前不但建议保持减税，而且提议加大力度。
■What is the most important is the unaffordable cost of cremation to poor country.
最主要的是，垃圾焚烧的成本很高， 穷国根本负担不起。
■The latest foreclosures are no longer the result of loans that were unaffordable from the outset or payments rising from resets.
最近发生的房屋没收拍卖事件已经不再是贷款人无力支付房贷或是由于重置而引起还贷额造成的，而是负资产和攀升的失业率的恶果。
■Ninety-four out of every hundred HIV-infected people live in developing nations, where currently available drug therapies are largely unaffordable.
来自每百个艾滋病毒感染者生活在发展中国家，那里现有的药物疗法主要是买不起的。
■The industry fell into a trap of high costs, including unaffordable benefits and a morass of regulatory and contractual obligations that enabled foreign producers to take a growing share of the U.
汽车产业深陷在高成本的困境中，包括无法负担的员工福利，以及法规与合约义务所形成的泥沼，以致国外厂商在美国的市佔率日益升高。
■Spas are not unaffordable luxurious spaces anymore.
温泉不再是奢侈昂贵的享受。
■Yet infrastructure spending alone is not a long-term solution.This sort of stimulus will sooner or later become unaffordable, and growth based on it will run out of steam.
然而仅靠基建投资决非长久之计，因为此种方法迟早会无法维系，而其带来的增长也会失去动力。
■The status quo is unaffordable.
现状是政府已经濒临破产了。
■Instead of talking sense and telling the US to back off with the Arms Race we're getting involved in a state of being that is unaffordable financially and economically.
理性来说，告诉美国减少军备竞赛，负担不起的金融和经济就是因为军备竞赛弄得我们一团糟。
■Yet few regions outside the Kathmandu valley generate much wealth and, even if politically possible, the sort of provincial structures that many Nepalis now expect may be unaffordable.
而在加德满都山谷外，几乎没有那个地区可以生产出这么多财富。即使政治上可能，许多尼泊尔人现在满心希望的省府结构也缺少资金支持。
■While most people dream of a small house with a garden and a courtyard, that dream is unaffordable to most.
虽然大部分人都梦想拥有一套带花园和庭院的小房子，但是显然，这个梦想对于大多数人而言难以实现。
■While these are the main causes of maternal death, unavailable, inaccessible, unaffordable, or poor quality care is fundamentally responsible.
虽然这些是孕产妇死亡的主要原因，但根源是难以获得、无法利用、负担不起或质量差的保健。
■Even if flying all over the world is ecologically irresponsible (and will soon be unaffordable), perhaps my place for making a living is in a virtual world?
虽然飞遍全球从生态意义上是不负责任（很快就会负担不起），也许我生活的地方应该是虚幻的世界。
■To break the cycle, policymakers need to address the problem of negative equity, not just unaffordable interest payments.
要打破这个循环，政策制定者们需要着手解决房屋资产为负的问题，而不仅仅是人们无力偿还利息。
■'Now there's a turning point either make an additional investment in China, or if that's unaffordable, then scale down,' says Mr.Naumann.
诺曼说，现在是个转折点--要么加大在中国的投资，要么如果承担不起的话就缩减规模。
■This price is unaffordable for the working class people who earn less than RMB 4,000 monthly and long for owning a decent and confortable home.
这个价格对于那些月薪不足4000元但渴望在上海拥有一套体面的、舒适的栖身之所的工薪阶层来说是难以承受的负担。
■These applications accomplish goals that would be difficult, unaffordable or impossible to attain using dedicated computers.
这些应用程式能完成专用电脑难以完成、无法负担，或根本不可能达到的目标。
■This sort of stimulus will sooner or later become unaffordable, and growth based on it will run out of steam.
这种经济刺激方案迟早难以为继，基于此的经济增长也会失去动力。
■Adverse selection could cause insurance companies to incur extraordinary losses or it could boost insurance premium to levels that would be unaffordable for many people.
逆向选择可能给保险公司带来巨大的损失，或者会使保险公司把保费提高到许多人不能支付的程度。
■What about the argument that the economic crisis will make a progressive agenda unaffordable?
那么关于经济危机使得进步政策显得太奢侈的说法呢？
■The cost for the operations was 3 Million Reichsmark, a hefty cost which made telegraphic messages unaffordable by the masses.
铺设海底电缆的成本高达三百万德国马克，因此电报的价格不是普通大众所能承受得起的。