prohibitively

英

美

adv.  禁止地

TOEFL

BNC.21149 / COCA.21706

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （费用）高得令很多人负担不起的，贵得让人望而却步的
  If the cost of something isprohibitive, it is so high that many people cannot afford it.
  1. The cost of private treatment can be prohibitive.
     自费治疗的费用高得让人望而却步。
  2. ...the prohibitive prices charged for seats at the opera.
     剧院高得吓人的票价

英英释义

adv

• to a prohibitive degree
  1. it is prohibitively expensive

双语例句

• Use instead of tabs when it would be prohibitively expensive to track and display the current location of the user as a state in the navigation control.
  通过控制导航条的状态来跟踪和展示用户当前位置很困难，成本很大时，用它来替代标签。
• The transport of heavy goods over long distances will soon become prohibitively expensive.
  粗重物品的长途运费不久将贵得令人难以负担。
• While scholarships are available to most children from poor families, private school tuition fees can still be prohibitively high.
  虽然会给绝大多数的来自贫穷家庭的孩子提供奖学金，但是私立学校的学费还是高得令人望而却步。
• Rare earths, says tomcyzk, "will become prohibitively scarce and expensive or possibly unavailable by 2030."
  汤姆奇科说：“稀土将变得极为稀缺和昂贵，到2030年，我们甚至可能再也无法获得稀土。”
• A key aim of the project is to develop a solution that is very reliable but not prohibitively expensive.
  计划的一个主要目标就是，开发出一种十分可靠而低廉的解决方案。
• Can Los Angeles continue to dominate as the country's capital of entertainment and glamour, and Silicon Valley as the center of high tech, if people are forbidden to take a shower for more than five minutes and water bills become prohibitively expensive?
  如果居民的洗澡时间不准超过五分钟，水费账单高得离谱，洛杉矶还能维持美国娱乐和魅力之都的地位吗，硅谷还会继续是高科技中心吗？
• So for most people it was prohibitively& We're talking in today's prices, roughly speaking.
  所以这会使大多数人望而却步-，我以现在的物价水平做参照，大概而已。
• I am old enough to remember working in offices where there was no wireless, where laptops were prohibitively expensive, and where if you wanted to carry a file around, you saved the little blighter on to a floppy disk.
  我年纪够大，所以体验过以前的办公室工作环境：那时没有无线网络；笔记本电脑贵得惊人；如果想把某个文件带到别处使用，得先把这东西存到软盘上。
• If an eavesdropper captures messages moving through the network, the encryption makes it impossible ( or at least prohibitively expensive) to convert the data to usable plain text.
  如果有窃听者捕获到了流经网络的消息，则加密可以确保无法（或者其代价高得不可接受）将该数据转换为可用的纯文本。
• Extending the virtual machine instruction set to support generics was deemed unacceptable, because that might make it prohibitively difficult for JVM vendors to update their JVM.
  扩展虚拟机指令集来支持泛型被认为是无法接受的，因为这会为Java厂商升级其JVM造成难以逾越的障碍。