1·He can comfortably afford the extra expense.
他支付这些额外的费用毫无问题。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·For one thing, the newlyweds usually cannot afford marriage expense, and transfer the load to parents.
一方面，新婚的人们一般都无法承担婚礼的费用，因此这个负担就转嫁到父母的身上。
3·If he can not afford to pay, he may be granted aid at public expense.
如果他不能支付律师费，可以用公用费用提供帮助。
4·Can you afford the expense?
你出的起这笔费用吗？
5·Even by the 1960s, though, air travelers were mostly wealthy people or businessmen on expense accounts; most Americans still could not afford to fly.
可是，即使在1960年代，乘飞机旅客大多是能承担昂贵花费的富人或商务人士，许多美国人仍旧无力承担飞行的费用。
6·At the same time, prominent researchers said conservationists cannot afford to shortchange large and regional protections at the expense of focusing on targeted species.
与此同时，优秀的研究者指出，环保主义者不能因为负担不起大型区域性保护的费用，就牺牲掉目标物种的集中保护。
7·Most poorer cities that have built subways, like Manila and Lagos, Nigeria, can afford to build only a few limited lines because of the expense.
大多数更贫穷的建造了地铁的城市，例如菲律宾的马尼拉、尼日利亚的拉格斯，因为开销太高而只能建造很少的几条线路。
8·She also said it could mean that big companies would have an advantage over start-ups that cannot afford the extra expense.
她同时说，这份协议将意味着大公司将比那些新近起步的公司拥有更大的优势，因为他们可以承担的其额外的支出。
9·Go but to Portsmouth or Southampton, and you will find the harbors crowded with the yachts belonging to such of the English as can afford the expense, and have the same liking for this amusement.
你到朴茨茅斯或索斯安普敦瞧瞧去吧，你会发现港口里挤满了游艇，都是属于这种有同样癖好的英国富翁的。
10·The more German industry excels, the more other Europeans feel that Germany's success comes at their expense, cracking open schisms within the euro zone just when the region can least afford them.
德国越成功，其他欧洲国家越觉得自己是牺牲品，欧元区在最脆弱的时候出现了裂隙。