prohibitively
prohibitively — 副詞
1. at a cost so high that people cannot afford the purchase or activity in question
過高地
高得讓人無法負擔
at a cost so high that people cannot afford the purchase or activity in question — for example, when rent is prohibitively expensive for a teacher, the teacher cannot afford to live there.
Rent in downtown Seattle was prohibitively expensive for most young teachers.
西雅圖市中心的房租過高地昂貴，多數年輕教師根本負擔不起。
collocation: prohibitively expensive
Cyrus wanted to study abroad, but found the tuition fees prohibitively high.
Cyrus 想出國留學，但發現學費過高地昂貴。
collocation: prohibitively high
Building a new hospital in the remote mountain village proved prohibitively costly.
在偏遠山村興建新醫院的成本高到讓人無法負擔。
The vintage guitar was priced prohibitively, so Baraka decided not to buy it.
那把復古吉他定價過高，Baraka 因此決定不買。
For many families in rural areas, private healthcare remains prohibitively expensive.
對許多偏鄉家庭來說，私人醫療保健的費用過高地昂貴。
- excessively
broader in scope; can describe any extreme degree, not just cost
- outrageously
more informal and emotional; implies the price is unreasonably or shockingly high
- astronomically
figurative and dramatic; suggests numbers that are unimaginably large
- reasonably
at a fair and acceptable price
- affordably
at a price that people can pay without difficulty
文法句型
prohibitively + adjective (expensive / high / costly)
用法筆記
Almost always modifies adjectives or verbs related to cost, such as 'expensive', 'high', 'costly', and 'priced'. Rarely used outside financial or economic contexts.