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。
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。
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.
当孩子们再也看不下去的时候，也许全美各地的车库乐队就会全面复苏，而这股新浪潮将开始在草根阶层产生影响。
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。
In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.
在我看来，任何买得起报纸的人都不应该被允许拥有一份。
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
据我们所知，任何一种治安官的任命方式、普选、抽签或出身都不能保证他比他的邻居们更有智慧。
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。