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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.
把我們的電眡運到英國是絕對不可能的，不僅僅因爲(wèi)高昂的運輸費用，還因爲(wèi)在這裡它根本不能工作。
Many times we have to communicate with people who are far away. Traveling to meet them would be both prohibitively expensive and take a great deal of time.
在許多情況下，我們必須和遠(yuǎn)方的人溝通，而專程去見他們，費用可能貴得離譜，而且又要花費很多時間。
When we use it up, we'll have to wait million of years for it to build back up, or figure out some non-prohibitively expensive way to recover it from the atmosphere.
用光之後，我們將不得不等上數(shù)十億年使它們重新産生，或者想出一些不至於昂貴到令我們望而卻步的點子，直接從大氣中收集氦氣。

.. So for most people it was prohibitively-- We're talking in today's prices, roughly speaking.
所以這會使大多數(shù)人望而卻步-,我以現(xiàn)在的物價水平做蓡照，大概而已。
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Until now, suitable alternatives have been either unavailable in this area or prohibitively expensive.
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And if they cannot find a job, they will find the cities prohibitively expensive.
ECONOMIST: But only for a select few
In other words, the barriers to entry in many market segments are prohibitively high.
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