afford

🇬🇧/əˈfɔːd/ 🇺🇸/əˈfɔːrd/📚 1860 178 3四级六级考研托福雅思中考高考
If you cannot afford something, you do not have enough money to pay for it. 支付得起

verb [vi. 不及物动词]买得起;有(时间)做某事;承担得起;<正式>提供,给予

I can afford it, but only just.

af- 在同辅音字母的词根前,表示"一再"等加强意义afford 买得起(af+ford 拿出→一再拿出{钱}→买得起)
afford 出现在下面的课文中
Lesson 111&112 The most expensive model afford 动词: 付得起(钱)
Lesson 15 Good news afford 动词: 负担得起
Lesson 59 Collecting
Lesson 47 The great escape
Episode 11 A Place of Our Own ACT I
Episode 11 A Place of Our Own ACT II
单词造句:

(有能力)负担得起

① vt. 买得起(常与 can/can’t 连用)

afford sth.

  • I can afford the coat.

② vt.  担负得起(损失、后果等),花得起(时间)(常与 can/can’t 连用)

can / could / be able to + afford + sth.  /  to do sth.

  • Students cannot afford the books.
  • Nowadays people can afford to travel abroad.

afford money/time

  • I can afford the hoilday. (有时间去)
  • I can afford five yuan.
  • I can only afford one week for the trip. afford to do sth.
  • I can’t afford to be ill again. 我不能再病了。
  • I can afford to buy the book.

③ vt. 提供,给予

  • Joe afforded us a room for the night.