He could not afford to buy a house.

他买不起房子。

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The concert was sold out, and in any case, most of the people gathered in the square could not afford the price of a ticket.

音乐会的票已售完，再说，聚在广场上的人也大都买不起票。

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We could not afford to overlook such a serious offence.

对这样严重的违法行为，我们决不能视若无睹。

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But Pavel Felgenhauer says Russia cannot afford large-scale rearmament either and that Russian authorities have not reconciled this contradiction.

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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。

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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。

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Their income would push them into a tax bracket where they could not afford it.

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We can not afford the overhead associated with the administration of 27 separate payroll systems.

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The OFT said too many people were granted loans they could not afford to repay.

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