You can't have it both ways. If you can afford to go out all the time, you can afford to pay off some of your debts.

你不可能做到两全其美。如果你有钱整天外出玩乐，就能还掉一部分债。

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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。

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She can't afford to fly herself and her son north, and her two grown children can't afford to fly back to Florida.

她负担不起自己和儿子飞到北边，而她两个成年子女也没法负担飞回佛罗里达州的费用。

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Only the very wealthy people in Aztec societies could afford to drink chocolate because cacao was so valuable.

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Now never mind that our own experience with virgins has failed to afford us such a spectacle of bodily transformation.

没有关系，如果我们关于贞操的知识,之前未能告诉我们如此壮观的身体转换。

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So people that are being kicked out of their apartment, or they can't afford a place to live,

所以，针对那些房屋被没收的人，或者是买不起房的人，

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So this is a problem we cannot afford to accept and we cannot afford to ignore.

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The next 29 days -- we cannot afford to be complacent, and we cannot afford to be cynical.

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You can't afford to have people thrown out of their homes because they can't afford to pay the tax.

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