The program focuses on all stages of production from planting and harvesting to packaging and promotion, increasing the profitability of farmers who previously struggled to afford costly chemical fertilizers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Because I wasn't able to afford, like, to pay the full price of the Yale degree.

因为靠我自己的财力，我肯定支付不起耶鲁全额的费用。

耶鲁奖学金获得者 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"In some of the governorates, have not a single member working, without any source of income, which is in turn having a huge impact on their ability to afford rented accommodation and their ability to buy food in a country where the public distribution system is failing quite badly,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.20

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

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

VOA: special.2010.02.17

The only purpose of the work of art is to afford aesthetic bliss.

艺术作品的唯一目的是提供美学极乐。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

In the future, project organizers want to have international donors buy the kits for girls and young women who cannot afford them.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Then you really won't be able to afford to stay alive.

说不定你连活下去都很困难

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.02.17

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

And,U2's manager says the band has worked hard to make sure tickets are lower in cost than in the past so that fans can afford to attend the shows.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

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

President Barack Obama has repeatedly described the conflict in Afghanistan as one that the United States cannot afford to lose.

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

The long-term fiscal challenge is largely a product of promises in our entitlement programs, medicare, medicate and social security that we have made the future generations that we cannot afford to keep.

长期财政挑战很大一部分原因,是我们承诺了很多津贴项目，我们承诺给下一代的,医疗保险和社会保险,而现在我们又没法兑现。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

However,most agencies can't afford those. You have to have a hangar, it costs quite a bit for maintenance and fuel."

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

You can't fight as a hoplite, in other words, unless you can afford to pay for your equipment and that excludes a goodly number of citizens who are too poor to fight in the phalanx.

换句话说,你不能加入步兵方阵,除非你自己能出钱买装备,这样有相当多的公民,会因为贫穷无法在方阵中战斗

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Analysts say the armed forces and its supporters are a political constituency that the Kremlin cannot afford to ignore.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

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，

我帮助过的人们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This debate is not a game for these Americans, and they cannot afford to wait any longer for reform,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

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 legislation would require most Americans to purchase health insurance and provide subsidies to those who cannot afford it.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

That is to say not even the best city on Aristotle's account can afford to be without a foreign policy.

这也就说明,就算是亚里士多德笔中的最佳之城,也承受不起没有外交政策的后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"We have difficult times. We cannot afford everything we wish for if we want to create the future."

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

And that right now we can no longer afford to incarcerate, see, more than two million people, and take them not only out of workforce, but keeping them away from information of knowledge of literacy.

现在，我们已没有能力,去限制两亿人口，让他们，脱离劳动力，让他们脱离信息,知识或文化素养。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"I think this president believes we can't afford not to." Hopes for a bipartisan compromise on health care appear to be fading.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

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

Some residents sell food to those who can afford it. Water is available,thanks to international aid organizations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

But when you look at the bill, it is very expensive and you can't afford to pay that.

但当你看见账单时，你才发现这太贵了，你负担不起。

I can 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Say Heav'nly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein Afford a present to the Infant God?

天上的神啊，你那神妙的天才,何不献上贡品给这神圣的婴孩？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选