天价被设计用来让小老百姓们不敢问津。

Monstrously inflated costs are designed to keep the hoi polloi at bay.

一个赛季要25万美元，他确实要价太高，让别人不敢问津了。

At $250,000 for a season, he really is pricing himself out of the market.

对小型配置来说，这样做很好；对更大型的配置来说，再添置大量昂贵硬件的成本可能会高得令人不敢问津。

This works well for small configurations; for larger configurations, the cost of duplicating a large amount of expensive hardware can be prohibitive.

整个都市中心显出一种财大气粗，高不可攀的气势，为的是让那些普通的求职者望而生畏，不敢问津，也为的是让贫富之间的鸿沟显得又宽又深。

The entire metropolitan centre possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant, and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep.