A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
负担得起
Afford
I cannot afford to watch Fox News.
我看不起福克斯新闻。
Very few people can afford to be poor.
很少有人能忍受贫穷。
We can't afford to be killing one another.
我们不能互相残杀。
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
政治家不能当道德家。
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
很少有艺术家能负担得起艺术气质。
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
我们不能让自由本身带有任何自由。
Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.
富裕国家有能力支付过高的价格。
You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.
作为一个成年人，你应该能够做任何你能负担得起的事情。
Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.
仅仅因为你买得起并不意味着你应该买它。
I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.
我很幸运，我能供得起我的孩子上私立学校。
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
承担任何重大而艰巨任务的人都不能谦虚。
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
预算告诉我们什么是我们负担不起的，但它不会阻止我们购买它。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
但是，很明显，我们不能就我们国家的基本承诺做出一些糟糕的长期决定——用这些承诺换取一些短期援助，而这些短期援助可能在一个月后就会到位，也可能不会到位。
No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
任何运动都不能被困在时间隧道中，处于假死状态。
I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.
我记得我的父亲是足球教练，当他的一些球员买不起足球鞋时，他会给他们买。
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
老朋友的好处之一就是你可以和他们一起做傻事。
The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
事实是你不能继续把我们的钱花在这些福利项目上。我认为我们在公共生活中需要更多的人愿意说，不，我们买不起某些东西。不，我们不能做某些事情。
The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
演员不能只从自己的生活中寻找所有的素材，也不能严格从自己的经验中寻找自己的表演选择和感受。