Meat and butter were prohibitively expensive.

肉和奶油都贵得买不起。

Car insurance can be prohibitively expensive for young drivers.

汽车保险费有时高得让年轻开车人承受不起。

Now, new technology makes it easier, faster, and cheaper to identify and serve targeted micro-markets in ways that were physically impossible or prohibitively expensive in the past.

现在，新技术使识别和服务目标微市场变得更容易、更快捷、更便宜；这在过去是不可能实现的，或者是代价非常昂贵的。

Generating enough light could be prohibitively expensive, unless cheap, renewable energy is available, and this appears to be rather a future aspiration than a likelihood for the near future.

除非有廉价可再生能源，否则制造足够光的成本可能会高得令人望而却步，而这似乎只是未来的愿望而非近期能实现的。

But winning such victories may be prohibitively costly.

但是要赢得这样的胜利代价可能让人承受不起。

The technology required can also be prohibitively expensive.

实施该计划所需的技术也花费颇高。

The idea never took off because it was prohibitively expensive.

这一想法没有实现，因为它造价实在昂贵。

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。

And if they cannot find a job, they will find the cities prohibitively expensive.

他们找不到工作，他们将会发现城市的生活成本真的是很昂贵——在城市中生存终将使他们望而却步。

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。

Why not the iPad 2? Hopefully, the accompanying data plan wouldn't be prohibitively expensive.

为什么IPAD 2 不是这样？ 我们希望，随附的数据计划不会非常昂贵。

An ethical wardrobe isn't prohibitively expensive - it just lets common sense out of the closet.

一个合乎道德标准的衣柜并不应该是出奇的昂贵，它只是脱离了衣橱的本意。

In the past, they have used state franchise laws to make any such action prohibitively expensive.

过去，经销商曾通过运用美国的特许权法律，让这类行动的代价变得极其昂贵，以阻止它们产生。

While action is justified and probably not prohibitively expensive, it is going to be a huge challenge.

虽然有理由采取行动，成本可能也不是高得吓人，但它仍将是一项艰巨挑战。

But the new policies setting higher rates for purchases of second homes made that prohibitively expensive.

但是新的政策为二套房贷款设定了更高的利率，已使她的购房计划变得昂贵得难以负担。

In Brazil, fixed-line broadband is often prohibitively expensive; in Russia, where it can be much cheaper, it is often unavailable.

在巴西，固网宽带经常会特别贵；在俄罗斯，固网宽带虽然便宜，但是确实很少公共提供。

Air travel is prohibitively expensive in Greenland and such a journey would cost several thousand pounds, a price very few can afford.

昂贵的机票令生活在格陵兰的极地因纽特人望而却步，因为这样的旅行将花费数千英镑，很少有人负担得起。

Sayuki is keen to revive this tradition, with the aim of funding the training of new geisha, otherwise prohibitively expensive for many.

纱幸很希望恢复这一传统，从而为培养新人提供资金支持，不然学费会贵到很多人无法承担。

Even if refinancing were available for endangered firms, it would be prohibitively dear. It is only a matter of time before some go under.

即使再融资对这些公司是可行的，其代价也非常昂贵，破产只是时间问题。

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。

We will never know if he was right, since the idea was considered as unworkable as the night courts abandoned for being "prohibitively expensive".

这也许让他要重新考虚一下先前的想法了。” 但由于开办夜间法庭“代价过高”使得这一想法不可行，我们永远无法得知他正确与否。

This will make it even more necessary to scrap the seniority-based pay system, because keeping older workers on will be prohibitively expensive.

这就使以资历为基础的薪酬制度更亟需废除，否则年长员工的薪酬将成为企业不得不接受的沉重负担。

You can more easily use the simpler form of that content in environments where parsing and properly processing the XML is prohibitively difficult.

在难于解析和正确处理 XML 的环境中，您可以更加轻松地使用这种更简单的内容形式。

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.

把我们的电视运到英国是绝对不可能的，不仅仅因为高昂的运输费用，还因为在这里它根本不能工作。

The most important factor for any LNG project is securing buyers. Without that, committing the billions of dollars needed would be prohibitively risky.

对于任何液化天然气项目而言，最重要的因素就是确定买家。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。

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。