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afford

/uh-fawrd, uh-fohrd/US // əˈfɔrd, əˈfoʊrd //UK // (əˈfɔːd) //

负担得起,负担,买得起,负担得起的

Related Words

manage管理,处理,管理好,治理allow允许,容许,让,准许provide提供,规定,供,具备grant授予,补助金,资助,赠与offer提供,提议,优惠,提价support支持,支助,支撑,支持率bear承担,忍受,负担,担当sustain维持,保持,持续,持续的incur招致,招致的,招来了,招致了stand站在,站立,站,站起来spare备用的,剩余的,剩余,空闲时间render渲染,呈现,渲染器,渲染的supply供应,提供,补给,供应品yield产量,屈服,收益,收益率bestow赐予,赠予,赠与,赋予impart传授,灌输,传递,传输furnish提供,提供家具,供给,配备

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence or adverse effect: The country can't afford another drought.
    • : to be able to meet the expense of; have or be able to spare the price of: Can we afford a trip to Europe this year? The city can easily afford to repair the street.
    • : to be able to give or spare: He can't afford the loss of a day.
    • : to furnish; supply: The transaction afforded him a good profit.
    • : to be capable of yielding or providing: The records afford no explanation.
    • : to give or confer upon: to afford great pleasure to someone.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbable to have or do; within financial means
Forms: afforded, affording, affords
Synonyms
allow允许,容许,让,准许manage管理,处理,管理好,治理bear承担,忍受,负担,担当incur招致,招致的,招来了,招致了spare备用的,剩余的,剩余,空闲时间stand站在,站立,站,站起来support支持,支助,支撑,支持率sustain维持,保持,持续,持续的be able to能够,能,能夠,可以be disposed to处置,处理,处置的,待处理have enough for够用,够用了,够用的,够了have the means for有办法,有能力,有办法的,有条件的
verbgive, produce
Forms: afforded, affording, affords
Synonyms
grant授予,补助金,资助,赠与offer提供,提议,优惠,提价provide提供,规定,供,具备bestow赐予,赠予,赠与,赋予furnish提供,提供家具,供给,配备impart传授,灌输,传递,传输render渲染,呈现,渲染器,渲染的supply供应,提供,补给,供应品yield产量,屈服,收益,收益率

Examples

  • The equal protection women enjoyed, according to the Supreme Court, wasn’t as strong as the protection that the Constitution afforded against racial discrimination.

  • At some point we can’t afford some of our employees because we don’t have money coming in from our clients.

  • The most advanced AI techniques require an enormous amount of computational resources, which increasingly only the wealthiest companies can afford.

  • His family could not afford to send his grandmother to a nursing home with services like physical therapy.

  • There’s a certain part of the public that can afford it, and those sort of people want to know where the product is coming from.

  • The irony has thinned with the economy, perhaps: Who can really afford just to pretend to DIY today?

  • His stepfather had left his mother and they could no longer afford the house in which they lived.

  • As a matter of dollars and cents, America in the short term may be able to afford disability and food stamps.

  • It represented everything about the kind of comfort and the little luxuries in life that a good glass of Scotch can afford us.

  • Selling off the extras, I saw my neighbor marvel at the scent and murmur that he wished he could afford one.

  • I doubt if the modern community can afford to continue it; it certainly cannot afford to extend it very widely.

  • Here and there are left a few plants without having their tops broken off, in order that they may afford seeds for another year.

  • Our gunners had put more than they could afford into the bombardment and had very little wherewith to pave the way.

  • Sensations were not so common in San Bernardino that they could afford to slight so notable an occasion as this.

  • In some cases a small stained glass window is set in the side or front, but only rich men can afford this luxury.

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