A higher tariff wall, which, however, is not prohibitive, will produce the same kind of results as this, but merely to a smaller degree.

就算关税壁垒不是完全禁止性的，仍然会产生同样的结果，只不过损害程度小一些而已。

youdao

Further, gold is not only prohibitive to purchase these days; it's expensive to keep, lying in a guarded safe-deposit box.

进一步讲，黄金在当今不仅禁止买卖，储存也成本很高，需要放在看守严密的保险箱内。

youdao

It would help strengthen international coordination if all grain exporting countries unconditionally pledged not to apply export bans or prohibitive taxes for exports.

它可以帮助加强国际协调，如果所有粮食出口国都能无条件地承诺不采取出口禁令或抑制性的出口税的话。

youdao

And its proximity to China means that the cost of transport should not be prohibitive.

ECONOMIST: Booming Mongolia

Companies currently domiciled in the U.S. would likely leave if the tax costs of exiting were not so prohibitive, Schackelford and Markle wrote.

FORBES: A Cross Country Comparison Of Corporate Income Taxes

Yet these costs should not be so prohibitive as to alter the business fundamentally, and will probably be lower than some of the populist regulations now being put in place.

ECONOMIST: The case for pre-emptive action