prohibitive

adj.

1. 高昂得令人难以承受的；贵得买不起的
   so high that it prevents people from buying sth or doing sth
   1. prohibitive costs
      难以承受的费用
   2. The price of property in the city is prohibitive.
      城市的房地产价格令人望而却步。
2. （以法令）禁止的
   preventing people from doing sth by law
   1. prohibitive legislation
      禁律

1. 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 is prohibitive, 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

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 expense is prohibitive.
   费用高得使人不敢问津。
3. Rewriting these applications to use up-to-date innovations in business application development and integration can be cost prohibitive.
   为了在业务应用程序开发和集成中使用创新技术而重写这些应用程序，这样做的成本太高，以致不太可能。
4. It doesn't reduce the burden of database concurrency and the required technologies are often cost prohibitive.
   它不能减小数据库并发性负担，需要的技术通常成本高昂，无法实施。
5. Again, this would be prohibitive to implement with reflection but it is perfectly acceptable through this method.
   同时，这将禁止用反射来实现，但它在该方法中是完全可接受的。
6. By using AW, their meeting was more cost effective, allowed broader participation, and had features and activities that may be prohibitive in the real world.
   会议通过使用AW降低了成本，吸引了更广泛的参与者，还提供了在真实世界中不容易实现的特性和活动。
7. The cost of doing this might seem prohibitive for a BPI that includes many applications and potentially hundreds of servers.
   由于它包含了许多应用软件和潜在的上百台的服务器，这项操作的花费可能看起来被BPI所禁止。
8. Therefore, unless the part is to be made in very large numbers, the cost becomes prohibitive.
   因此，除非零部件的生产量非常大，否则，机床自动化就会因成本过高而变得不可行。
9. For instance, using GPS receiver on each device is energy prohibitive, and is limited to outdoor applications.
   例如，使用GPS（全球卫星定位在每一个装置接收系统），是能源望而却步限于户外应用。
10. The cost of making them by hand is prohibitive.
    用手工制作它们的成本过高。
11. There are reports of bookings for holiday apartments and villas being cancelled because travellers have been unable to get a car, or have found the prices prohibitive.
    有报道称由于旅行者无法获得一辆租赁汽车或感觉价格难以承担，而取消了预定假日公寓、别墅的行动。
12. If there are fewer households per transformer predicted equipment costs would be prohibitive.
    如果有少量家庭每台变压器预言设备费用是禁止的。
13. Collection costs for garbage would be prohibitive in rural areas because of the dispersed population.
    在农村收集垃圾的费用会高得惊人，因为那里的人口很分散。
14. Hotel prices in the major cities are high but not prohibitive.
    大城市里的旅馆价格贵，但并非负担不起。
15. Newer drugs offer alternatives, but they are often cost prohibitive, and few data exist on their long-term safety and effectiveness.
    有一些新的可替代药物，单它们往往要么是花费较大，或是对它们的长期安全性和有效性缺少相关数据。
16. He'd made some calls and found the cost of shipping a mare to the States was prohibitive.
    他就此事打了数次电话给我，而且发现运一匹成年母马到美国的成本高得令人不敢问津。
17. Big companies have government affairs departments but for small groups the cost of access is prohibitive.
    大公司设有政府事务部，但对小公司而言，进入的代价非常昂贵。
18. The cost of education becomes prohibitive to lower-income families.
    许多低收入家庭对教育经费不敢问津。
19. Computers are gradually overcoming such obstacles as the shortage of courseware and prohibitive school system budgets.
    计算机的使用正在逐步克服教学软件短缺，学校建立计算机系统资金有限等一些碍障。
20. The government has put a prohibitive tax on foreign goods.
    政府对外国货征收抑制性税率。
21. The costs of relocating a business are often prohibitive.
    迁移商店的成本通常是非常高的。
22. It is folly to imagine it would, at less than a prohibitive economic or political cost.
    认为中国将以不太高昂的经济或政治代价来援助欧洲，是一种愚蠢的想法。
23. The cost of travelling to the Far East is prohibitive.
    到远东旅游的费用高的令人不敢问津。
24. For many organizations, however, the operational complexity and costs to ensure safe third party network access has been prohibitive.
    然而对很多组织来说，操作的复杂性和保证第三方安全地访问网络的费用都是难于承受的。
25. Prohibitive costs mean that neither the hepatitis B nor the papillomavirus vaccine are widely used across the developing world.
    难以承受的花费意味着无论是乙型肝炎还是乳头状瘤病毒疫苗，都不可能在发展中国家广泛使用。
26. Gender selected embryos on average have a lower conception rate and the cost can be prohibitive.
    性挑选的胚胎一般说来有较低的怀孕率，而且费用可能是禁止的。
27. You could argue that the total tax costs would still be prohibitive to any wallet-saving measures, but if you're one of those who spend a lot of time on the road, it does make sense.
    你可能认为总税收成本仍然会禁止任何wallet-saving措施，但是如果你是一位那些花了很多时间在路上，它确实是有意义的。
28. Second, even if it were available, the cost implications are prohibitive.
    其次，即便有这么多石油，成本因素也会使人望而却步。
29. Unfortunately, the costs of home ownership are prohibitive for countless millions of families in the developed world.
    然而很不幸地，对发达国家中数不清的数百万家庭而言，要拥有自己房屋的代价实在是太高了。
30. An ethical culture does not stem from a set of prohibitive rules.
    伦理文化不是从一系列的禁止性的规则发展而来的。

adj

1. tending to discourage (especially of prices)
   1. the price was prohibitive

   Synonym:    prohibitory