afford to

• If these two conditions are not present the enemy can afford to ignore our whole effort .
  如这两个条件不具备，则敌人在我们行动时，是不会受到影响的。
• We can ill afford to lose tuneful wind-pipes like yours when they fall among us .
  像你有这么一个好嗓子，已经到了我们这儿来，又要跑掉，真叫我们舍不得。
• The apparent paradox was that only as america became more american could it afford to be more european .
  有趣的是，只有美国更加美国化的时候，美国才敢于欧化。
• The apparent paradox was that only as america became more american could it afford to be more european .
  有趣的是，只有美国更加美国化的时候，美国才能更加欧化。
• I shouldn't have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills .
  我并不以为一个海外传教士该是这样一位大亨，居然摆出这副臭架子来。
• There are plenty of loans and scholarships for the bright and eager who can't afford to pay .
  对于聪明好学但又付不起学费的人来说，有很多借贷的方式和奖学金的种类。
• It was no longer a matter of living cheaply; it was simply that they could not afford to live at all .
  现在早已不是生活寒酸的问题了，简直是他们根本无法生活下去了。
• As i can't afford to live in a grand house, he comes and stays in these rickety old chambers with me .
  我住不起高楼大厦，他就跑来跟我作伴，住在这种摇摇欲坠的破房子里。
• He could afford to smile now at his past discomfort, having no longer the sense of duty unfulfilled .
  他现在可以对他过去的苦闷解颐了，再也不会有那种没有尽到责任的感觉了。
• Those who could afford to trade up were more likely to graduate to a buick, oldsmobile, or cadillac .
  能购买得起较昂贵的汽车的人更有可能升级购买一辆别克、欧尔茨或迪拉车。