afford

🇬🇧/əˈfɔːd/ 🇺🇸/əˈfɔːrd/📚 1860 13 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

afford

相关词汇

易混淆afraid🇬🇧/əˈfreɪd/ 🇺🇸/əˈfreɪd/^{adj. 害怕的；担心的；恐怕}

(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.