We could afford to reduce defence spending in peacetime without excessive risk.
在和平时期我们可以减少国防开支而并不引起风险增加。
Most workers could afford to have a house of their own.
大多数工人可以买得起房子。
As mass production techniques were refined in the 19th century, the price of pianos dropped to the point that a larger proportion of the population could afford to own them.
随着19世纪大规模生产技术的改进，钢琴的价格下降到更多人都买得起的程度。
She never took a taxi, even though she could afford to.
尽管她坐得起出租汽车，但她从未坐过。
Only the extremely rich could afford to lunch at the Mirabelle.
只有大富豪才吃得起米拉贝尔饭店的午餐。
These people could afford to retire to Florida but they'd just as soon stay put.
这些人能负担得起退隐到佛罗里达，但他们宁愿留在原地。
Only the emperor and rich people could afford to use it.
只有皇帝和有钱人才用得起。
After 10 years of hard work, he saved up enough money to buy his first car, a cheap one—he wouldn't buy one until he could afford to pay for it without borrowing money.
经过10年的努力工作，他攒够了钱买第一辆车，一辆很便宜的车。除非他不用借钱就能买得起，否则他是不会买的。
Studies show merit aid also tends to benefit disproportionately students who could afford to enroll without it.
研究表明，绝大部分奖学金也逐渐流入那些没有奖学金也有能力支付学费的学生囊中。
If you can make 100 tons of the drug, but it costs $100,000 a gram that might not be a useful drug because nobody could afford to use it.
如果你能制造一百吨这种药物，但每克的成本是十万美元，这药可能就没什么用，因为没人买得起它。
The only way we could afford to feed everyone was to hunt.
唯一可以养活全家人的办法就是打猎。
Previously, only the elite could afford to surround themselves with spells.
在此之前，只有上层才买得起咒符环绕其身。
He added: "People there were joking that no one in Denaya could afford to live there."
他补充说：“当地人开玩笑说，Denaya没有人能买得起那的房子。”
"I was still pretty young, and I could afford to figure out what road I was going down," he says.
我仍旧很年轻，我能承担起走错路付出的代价。
We feel her pain, even though we suspect she could afford to hire a ghost writer to pen the pages.
虽然按照财力她是可以找了一个代笔作家的，但是此刻我们可以感觉到她内心的痛苦。
Now, quite passive investors could afford to risk capital—but only what they chose—with entrepreneurs.
现在，保守的投资者也可以对他们选择的企业进行风险投资。
They thought Lehman brothers was so much smaller than AIG or bear Stearns, they could afford to let it fail.
他们觉得雷曼兄弟比美国国际集团(AIG)或贝尔斯登(Bear Stearns)规模小得多，他们可以承担任由其崩溃的后果。
Once we had whittled down the required reviewer list, we could afford to give each respondent one-on-one attention.
一旦我们减少了所需的复审员名单，我们会注意到每个复审员的反馈。
That is one reason why it could afford to spend less than 3% of GDP on education last year and only 0.6% on health.
这是为什么去年菲律宾在教育上开支少于GDP的3%，而在医疗上的开支只有GDP的0.6%。
It is pretty much an upper-middle-class British colour," says Ho. "Who else could afford to join international car racing?
胡（Ho）先生说，“它可以说是英国中上层社会的流行色，”“其他人谁能有钱参加国际汽车赛呢？
In the boom years, hedge-fund managers could afford to refuse such requests, which they tended to regard as too much hassle.
在繁荣时代，对冲基金经理们可能可以拒绝这些被他们认为是存在太多争议要求。
We could afford to take a decade to think carefully about what the right mental well-being targets are for the next century.
我们可以负担得起用十年时间去仔细思索何为下个世纪心理健康的正确目标。
Industrial nations, presumably, could afford to switch to low- or no-carbon fuels, but the world’s poorest nations could not.
可以设想，工业化国家能够承受总体向低碳或无碳的转型，但是世界上最贫穷的国家根本无法达到。
The boss, Jay Steinfeld, told us his business was profitable and had "plenty of cash," so he could afford to take on new staff.
杰伊·施泰因·费尔德老板对我们说，他的公司是赢利的，并且‘现金充裕。’所以，他有能力再招新员工。
It wasn't as if his dad could afford to pitch in, and his mother's job at the mall didn't pay much more than Brendan's at OfficeMax.
他的父亲看起来不像是能为家庭谋生的人，而他母亲在购物中心的工资也没比丹在日用百货公司里的高多少。
He added: 'People there were joking that no one in Denaya could afford to live there. If these apartments sell at all, it is to speculators.'
他补充道：“人们开玩笑说没有人能买得起房去住在那里，如果那些房子都卖完，大多数是投机商买去了。”
He added: 'People there were joking that no one in Denaya could afford to live there. If these apartments sell at all, it is to speculators.'
他补充道：“人们开玩笑说没有人能买得起房去住在那里，如果那些房子都卖完，大多数是投机商买去了。”
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