A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
负担得起
Afford
When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.
当我出门旅行时,这完全是件容易的事。我买得起我自己的公共汽车。
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
爱情和其他奢侈品一样。除非你买得起,否则你无权拥有它。
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。
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。
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
任何理智的人都无法摆脱使人衰弱的快乐;没有一个苦行僧是绝对理智的。
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。
For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.
对很多人来说,每周的工资是“带回家的工资”,因为家是他们唯一能负担得起的地方。
So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.
所以我们知道仅仅鼓励更多的人出国留学是不够的。我们还需要确保他们真的买得起。
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。
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。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
很少有艺术家能负担得起艺术气质。
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。
Very few people can afford to be poor.
很少有人能忍受贫穷。
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。
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。