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。
collocation: prohibitively costly
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。
pattern: priced + prohibitively
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。
- prohibitively expensive
- prohibitively high
- prohibitively costly
- priced prohibitively
- 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.
常見錯誤
同根字
- prohibit動詞B2
- prohibition名詞B2
- prohibitive形容詞B2
- prohibited形容詞B2
常見搭配
常用片語
- prohibitively expensive
- prohibitively high
- prohibitively costly
- priced prohibitively