affordable
affordable — 形容詞
1. priced low enough that you can buy it or pay for it without money trouble.
付得起的
價格不高，自己有能力付
priced low enough that you can buy it or pay for it without money trouble.
These winter shoes are affordable even on a teacher's monthly budget.
這雙冬鞋就算靠老師的月薪也付得起。
affordable + budget context
At the night market, Leo found an affordable bowl of beef noodles.
在夜市裡，Leo 找到一碗他付得起的牛肉麵。
The museum cafe stays affordable for families with three hungry children.
這家博物館咖啡館的價格，對有三個孩子的家庭來說仍付得起。
Compared with downtown gyms, this sports centre is still affordable.
跟市中心的健身房相比，這間運動中心的收費還算負擔得起。
An affordable phone plan helped Mina save money for school books.
一個付得起的手機方案幫 Mina 省下買課本的錢。
- inexpensive
directly says the price is low, without focusing on a person's budget
- cheap
more casual and can suggest low quality as well as low price
- reasonably priced
neutral phrase often used for shops, meals, and services
- budget
usually before a noun and often used in advertising for low-cost choices
- expensive
costs a lot of money
- overpriced
costs more than it should for its value
文法句型
something is affordable
affordable for someone
affordable to someone
用法筆記
Often used for prices, products, trips, meals, and services. The person who can pay may appear with 'for' or 'to', but 'for' is more common in everyday English.
常見錯誤
2. used especially about homes and rent that people on lower incomes can still pay
平價的
供低收入者也能租得起或買得起
used especially about homes and rent that people on lower incomes can still pay for.
The town built affordable apartments near the train station for nurses.
鎮上在火車站附近蓋了平價公寓，給護理師居住。
affordable + housing noun
After the rent increase, few affordable homes remained in the old district.
房租漲價後，老城區裡剩下的平價住宅已經不多了。
Young couples lined up early to apply for affordable housing.
年輕夫妻一早就排隊申請平價住宅。
This new project offers affordable rental units for older residents.
這個新計畫提供平價出租住宅給年長居民。
Without buses nearby, the flats were affordable but hard to reach.
這些公寓雖然平價，附近卻沒有公車，很難到達。
- low-cost
broad cost label that can describe homes, rents, or building plans
- subsidized
only fits when the cost is reduced by government or another group
- below-market
more formal and common in housing-policy language
- unaffordable
too expensive for the people who need it
- luxury
describes housing aimed at people with much more money
文法句型
affordable housing
affordable home
affordable rent
用法筆記
Usually appears before nouns such as 'housing', 'home', 'rent', and 'apartment', and it often comes up in public policy. Distinguish from sense 1: this sense is specifically about places to live.