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单词

prohibitively

读音
proʊˈhɪbətɪvli
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Prohibitively 来自于动词 "prohibit"-禁止,该词源自于拉丁语 "prohibēre",其中 "pro-" 的意思是 “前面”、“提前”,而 "hibēre" 是 “持有”、“保持”。

释义

adv. 禁止地;过高地;过分地

例句

Meat and butter were prohibitively expensive.
肉和奶油都贵得买不起。
Car insurance can be prohibitively expensive for young drivers.
汽车保险费有时高得让年轻开车人承受不起。
Now, new technology makes it easier, faster, and cheaper to identify and serve targeted micro-markets in ways that were physically impossible or prohibitively expensive in the past.
现在,新技术使识别和服务目标微市场变得更容易、更快捷、更便宜;这在过去是不可能实现的,或者是代价非常昂贵的。

强化记忆

你可以将 "prohibitively" 和 "prohibit" 联系起来记忆。如禁止的事物常常是过分的、过高的,无法承受的。"Prohibit" 是14世纪的词汇,源自拉丁语的 "prohibēre" 。“Prohibitively“这个词通常用于描述一些过于昂贵、费时间或者高难度的事情,它体现了西方社会对于财产、市场和可获得服务的重视。

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On a Mars mission, there's only so much that we can bring with us from Earth.And it's prohibitively expensiveto launch tons and tons of construction materials into space.
we couldn’t keep up with our emissions through natural methods,and technological solutions would be prohibitively expensiveand require huge amounts of permanent storage.
Today, the median bail is $10,000—a prohibitively high price for almost half of Americans,and as many as nine out of ten defendants.
These were made by chemistry in a test tube,something that would have been prohibitively expensive to doon this scale just a decade or two ago.
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