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。

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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。

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

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

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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.

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