prohibitively

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. 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。”
2. Unfortunately, doing this manually is almost prohibitively expensive and time-consuming.
   不幸的是，手工的进行这一操作在成本上和时间消耗上几乎是不可行的。
3. Storing conversational state in the database can be prohibitively expensive.
   在数据库中存储会话状态的成本可能难以承受。
4. 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。
5. Depending on the tool, the XML might be prohibitively complex, and the first step should be to convert the XML to a simplified form so that it's easier to work with.
   根据所使用的工具，XML很可能非常复杂，因此第一步是将XML转换为一种简便形式，以便更容易处理它。
6. Privacy and integrity: When the messaging network or volume of message data is large, encrypting all traffic can be prohibitively expensive.
   保密和完整性：当消息网络或消息数据量非常大时，对所有流量加密的代价高得惊人。
7. 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。
8. While embarking on such a journey may seem prohibitively expensive, Claire insists that a budget of 12,000 between the two of them has been sufficient for 18 months on the road.
   开始一场这样的旅行可能看起来很昂贵，克莱尔认为1.2万英镑的预算对于他们两个人18个月的旅行是足够的了。
9. Equivalents to Skype, for instance, were prohibitively expensive a decade ago but now are free, giving people higher standards of living without troubling the statisticians compiling gross domestic product data.
   例如，10年前与Skype发挥同样功效的产品贵得离谱，而如今却是免费的，这提高了人们的生活水平，而无须麻烦统计师编纂国内生产总值（GDP）数据。
10. 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？
11. But unless the defaulting countries can engineer a return to economic growth, they will continue to struggle to tap the capital markets on anything but prohibitively expensive terms.
    但除非这些濒临违约的国家能设法恢复经济增长，否则它们仍将很难利用上资本市场，只能去接受成本高得令人望而却步的条款。
12. That makes the cost of raising new capital prohibitively expensive.
    这使得其筹集新资金的成本高得惊人。
13. 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。
14. Some of these treatments are prohibitively expensive for developing countries, especially now as the number of patients is growing exponentially.
    其中一些治疗对发展中国家来说过于昂贵，目前患者数目激增进一步加剧了发展中国家的负担。
15. Yet new debt has become almost impossible to arrange and is, in most cases, prohibitively expensive.
    然而，目前进行新的债务安排已几乎没有可能，在大多数情况下，代价高得令人却步。
16. Real-estate prices in downtown Manhattan looked prohibitively expensive.
    市中心曼哈顿的房地产价格贵得使人望而生畏。
17. Property in the area tends to be prohibitively expensive.
    这个地区的地产有贵得使人负担不起的倾向。
18. For example, solar energy was prohibitively costly for many consumers in Asia, he said, adding that there should be more action to reduce demand for resources and to cut waste.
    他说，例如，太阳能对于亚洲的许多消费者的价格太高。他还说，应该采取更多的行动从而减少对资源的需求并减少废物。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. Without that, committing the billions of dollars needed would be prohibitively risky.
    如果没有买家，对这些项目动辄数十亿美元的投入将极为冒险，让人望而却步。
22. It would be complicated but not prohibitively difficult to blend one or the other of these effects into the sandwich burner model.
    在夹层燃烧模型中加入一个或另一个影响因素，自然便使问题复杂化了，但还不是过于繁难的。
23. Despite this encouraging trend in mobile access, services such as Internet continue to be either prohibitively expensive ( especially when compared to average local incomes) or not available at all.
    虽然非洲的手机市场出现了这个令人鼓舞的趋势，但像互联网那样的服务仍然还是过于昂贵（尤其是考虑到当地的平均收入）或根本不存在。
24. 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。
25. Although encryption does not make it theoretically impossible for an adversary to retrieve the encrypted data, it does raise the cost of doing so prohibitively.
    虽然从理论上说加密不会使对手无法检索加密的数据，但这确实极大增加了这样做的成本。
26. Giving every patient an annual anti-flu injection would be prohibitively expensive.
    每年给每个病人注射抗流感针剂的花费是无法承受的。
27. We know, though, that someone's going to spoil what we've done, so, to protect their money, the business has a minimum feature set that's going to make the cost of copying prohibitively expensive.
    当然，我们知道有些人会破坏我们的东西。因此为了保护我们的钱，我们需要有一个最小商业特性集，它要能使复制的成本非常高昂。
28. 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。
29. While the upper end of this scale might be prohibitively expensive, it suggests at least some sites can be conserved.
    尽管保护费用的上限可能是很昂贵的，论文认为至少一些地点可以被保护下来。
30. 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。

adv

1. to a prohibitive degree
   1. it is prohibitively expensive