| EXAMPLE SENTENCES | ||
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我们不去，只是因为我们负担不起。 We aren't going for the simple reason that we can't afford it. | ||
私人治疗的费用会高得负担不起。 The cost of private treatment can be prohibitive. | ||
反之，要是产品价格过高，一些人群又会负担不起。 On the other hand, if the price is too high, some will not be able to afford it. | ||
我已经告诉过你—我们负担不起，不再说了！ I've already told you—we can't afford it, full stop! | ||
我们并不是一文不名，但我们负担不起那样的房子。 We aren't too badly off but we can't afford a house like that. | ||
某小商贩：即使住进去了，极高的物业费我也负担不起。 A peddler: I cannot afford the property costs even though I could live here. | ||
因为家庭负担不起学费，他16岁的时候就从中学退学了。 He dropped out of high school at the age of 16 because his family could not afford school fees. | ||
这明显是个促狭的问题，如果你问价格，你很可能根本就负担不起。 This is clearly one of those situations where if you need to ask the cost, you probably can't afford it. | ||
最近还有一位妻子告诉我，她的丈夫患上了职业倦怠症，想要退休，不过他们家负担不起让丈夫退休。 Another wife told me recently that her husband is burned out on his job and wants to retire, but the family can't afford it. | ||
阮莳芳说她当时没有去医院，而是去当地的药店买了些药，因为她和她33岁的丈夫张庭选实在太穷，负担不起医疗费用。 Phuong said she took some medicine bought at a local pharmacy instead of going to the hospital because her and her husband Tuyen, now 33, were too poor to afford it. | ||
