| 单词 | afford |
| 释义 | af·ford 1. a. < a dictionary of an ancient language can afford to embrace everything that can be called a word — R.W.Chapman > < you can't afford to get out of balance — Lou Smyth > < most of us, however, can well afford to look critically at our writing — Milton Hail > < she could afford to be generous with Irene — Louis Auchincloss > b. < no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources — F.D.Roosevelt > < people who can afford leisure sit in cafés by the hour — W.P.Webb > < our failure to recognize and foster promising students who cannot afford college — Douglas Bush > < we can afford only those threats that we are ready to carry out — New Republic > 2. a. < history affords us a wealth of examples — John Strachey > < an old building with grillwork elevators affording passengers a view of the cable — J.F.Powers > — sometimes used with to < their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling — Matthew Arnold > < the bill was a measure necessary to afford protection to labor as well as industry — Current Biography > b. < apartments are small and afford very little living space — D.P.O'Mahony > < by the great distribution afforded by the printing press — R.A.Hall b.1911 > 3. archaic |
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