afford
🇬🇧/əˈfɔːd/ 🇺🇸/əˈfɔːrd/📚 1856 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.
我确实能负担得起，但只是勉强能够承受而已。
- afford 出现在下面的课文中（提供视频、音频及笔记等可系统性学习）
- 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
af + ford(看作Ford， 美国大财阀福特家族) → 财大气粗 → 负担得起
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.