喜樂美語
  1. 1aC1/ˌʌnəˈfɔːrdəbəl/ · /ˌʌnəˈfɔːdəbəl/買不起的

    So expensive that most people do not have enough money to buy or pay for it.

    示範例句 · Example

    For many young families, buying a home in the city has become unaffordable.

    逐字對許多年輕家庭來說，在城市裡買房子已經變得負擔不起。

    「unaffordable」是形容一樣東西「貴到大部分人負擔不起」，由 afford（負擔得起）加上 un-（不）和 -able（可以…的）組成，所以字面就是「無法負擔的」。它形容的是「東西／價格」（an unaffordable house），不是形容人；要說人買不起，英文會用 can't afford（I can't afford it）。

    常見搭配

    • unaffordable for someone

      對某些人來說買不起

      too expensive for a particular group of people

      Good childcare is unaffordable for many working parents.

    • become unaffordable

      變得買不起

      to change into something too expensive to pay for

      As prices rose, housing became unaffordable for young people.

    • prohibitively unaffordable

      貴到讓人完全無法負擔

      so expensive that it stops people completely

      For rural families, private tutoring can be prohibitively unaffordable.

core核心畫面

Picture a price so high it shuts most people out — afford + un, 'not able to pay for it'. You look at the tag and know the money simply isn't there.

可以想成價錢高到把大多數人擋在門外：afford（負擔得起）前面加上 un（不能），一看標價就知道錢不夠，怎麼算都買不下手。

同家族的字

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

unaffordableadj

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    Too expensive to be afforded.

    • ASLEF's LU organiser Finn Brennan highlighted that slashing government funding to TfL means signalling upgrades necessary for such trains is unaffordable.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。