3.详细解说
1.“afford”常与“can”、“could”或“be able to”等表示能力的动词连用,并通常出现于含有否定意义的句子中。“can/could/be able to afford (to do) sth.”表示“买得起…,支付得起…
,负担得起…,承担得起…”。例如:We can't afford to go on vacation this year.(今年我们没有足够的钱去度假。)Few people are able to afford cars like that.(没有几个人能买得起
那样的车。)I can't afford to buy a house.(我买不起房子。)We can't afford to wait any longer or we'll miss the plane.(我们可等不起了,不然会误了飞机的。)We can't afford to
make any mistakes at this stage in the project.(工程到了这个阶段,我们可承受不起任何的错误。)