| 单词 | afford |
| 释义 | afford (once / 84 pages) v To afford means you have enough money or time for something. If you only have ten dollars on you, you can't afford to buy a twenty-dollar hat. Afford is a verb that has to do with means. You either have a surplus and therefore can afford something, or else you have a deficit and can’t. It can be in the monetary sense: "$100 for cashmere socks? I can’t afford that!” It can also refer to time: “Since my train wasn't scheduled to leave for another hour, I could afford to wait for my sister ten more minutes.” Or even access: “The castle walls afforded a wonderful view of the moat.” WORD FAMILYafford: affordable, afforded, affording, affords+/affordable: affordably USAGE EXAMPLESSimply put, the state can’t afford such inaction for another year. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Unable to afford its Bronx apartment, the family was evicted, and Ms. Farquharson and her children moved into a shelter in early 2013. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The sensors cost only about $200 each, so the hospital should be able to afford more, he added. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1v have the financial means to do something or buy something We can't afford to send our children to college Can you afford this car? 2v be able to spare or give up I can't afford to spend two hours with this person Hyper drop, expend, spend pay out 3v be the cause or source of Our meeting afforded much interesting information Syn|Hypo|Hyper give, yield give cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense open, open up make available allow, allow for, leave, providemake a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to 4v afford access to Syn give, open |
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