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Shipping our television to the UK was out of the question—not only would it have been prohibitively expensive, it was unlikely to work here anyway.
把我們的電視運到英國是絕對不可能的，不僅僅因為高昂的運輸費用，還因為在這里它根本不能工作。
Many times we have to communicate with people who are far away. Traveling to meet them would be both prohibitively expensive and take a great deal of time.
在許多情況下，我們必須和遠(yuǎn)方的人溝通，而專程去見他們，費用可能貴得離譜，而且又要花費很多時間。
When we use it up, we'll have to wait million of years for it to build back up, or figure out some non-prohibitively expensive way to recover it from the atmosphere.
用光之后，我們將不得不等上數(shù)十億年使它們重新產(chǎn)生，或者想出一些不至于昂貴到令我們望而卻步的點子，直接從大氣中收集氦氣。

.. So for most people it was prohibitively-- We're talking in today's prices, roughly speaking.
所以這會使大多數(shù)人望而卻步-,我以現(xiàn)在的物價水平做參照，大概而已。
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Until now, suitable alternatives have been either unavailable in this area or prohibitively expensive.
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And if they cannot find a job, they will find the cities prohibitively expensive.
ECONOMIST: But only for a select few
In other words, the barriers to entry in many market segments are prohibitively high.
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