prohibitively expensive

基本解釋

Sayuki is keen to revive this tradition, with the aim of funding the training of new geisha, otherwise prohibitively expensive for many.
紗幸很希望恢復這一傳統(tǒng)，從而為培養(yǎng)新人提供資金支持，不然學費會貴到很多人無法承擔。
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。

Until now, suitable alternatives have been either unavailable in this area or prohibitively expensive.
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In a conventional fossil-fuel plant that's prohibitively expensive, since the CO2 is mixed in with nitrogen.
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