afford 的定义
- 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.
afford 近义词
able to have or do; within financial means
afford 的近义词 12 个
- allow
- manage
- bear
- incur
- spare
- stand
- support
- sustain
- be able to
- be disposed to
- have enough for
- have the means for
afford 的反义词 3 个
give, produce
更多afford例句
- 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.