Chocolate remained a drink that only wealthy people could afford to drink until the eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

So 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.

虽然你能制造一百吨药,但每克药得十万美元,这药就没什么用,因为没人能用得起它

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Would you be happy if you could afford to buy lots of brand-name products?

如果你买得起很多名牌产品，你会觉得幸福吗？

名牌效应 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Batik-maker Daliyem says she could only afford low-quality material typically used to wrap bodies before burial.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

Someone figured out at the median contribution that got you invited to stay a night in the Lincoln bedroom, Bill Gates could afford to stay in the Lincoln bedroom every night for the next sixty six thousand years.

有人算出来,按能受邀在林肯卧室留宿一夜,所需捐款额的中位数计算，比尔·盖茨完全付得起在林肯卧室,住上6万6千年。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He says the people here are poor. The middlemen would be free to continue selling to them if it was at a price they could afford.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

And I'll say "how are you" and you say something to the effect that if I could afford a latte in this world, I'm doing well.

我问您最近怎么样，您有一次,说了一句话，大致意思是，如果我能,享受得起一杯拿铁，那一切就还好。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The company's co-founder, engineer Harish Hande moved to an Indian village so he could understand the villagers' needs and what they could afford, before he started the company.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

And it was exciting and interesting, and this device that had all this computational power that any person could afford or start to afford, that was just really interesting to me.

这让人兴奋又很有意思，这个设备有很强的计算能力,而且每个人都买得起或者将会买得起，这对我来说真得很有意思。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

Once they discovered their moral freedom, once they discovered that they could thwart God and work evil in the world, and abuse and corrupt all that God had created, then God could not afford to allow them access to the tree of life.

一旦他们意识到了，道德自由,一旦他们违背上帝，开始作恶,摧残，腐化，上帝的创造物,上帝便不准他们再接近生命树。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选