cannot afford to

This is so small a shop and we cannot afford to sell things on account.

我们的店小，赊不起账。

Time is precious, and we cannot afford to waste it.

时间很宝贵，我们浪费不起。

He cannot afford to send his three children to school.

要送三个孩子去上学，他负担不起。

We cannot afford to ignore their advice.

我们不能不考虑他们的劝告。

He cannot afford to send his son to college.

他负担不起他儿子上大学。

You cannot afford to offend your boss, or you'll be in real trouble.

你可别得罪了老板，回头让你吃不了兜着走。

We cannot afford to be complacent about our health.

对于健康我们决不能掉以轻心。

Given our current form, we cannot afford to lose a match like this.

给予的我们的现在形式，我们不能够负担像这一样失去比赛。

We cannot afford to neglect this issue now, she said.

我们现在承受不起忽视这一问题。

The government cannot afford to alienate either group.

疏远两个团体中的任何一方都是政府承受不起的。

Prices are now so high that ordinary people cannot afford to buy.

目前房价太高，普通人根本买不起。

Many countries cannot afford to divert land away from food production.

许多国家无法把土地从粮食生产转为生物燃料生产。

The shower that we put in a few years back has broken and we cannot afford to replace it.

我们几年前安装的淋浴器坏了，但买不起新的来换。

We cannot afford to drop behind our competitors.

我们可担当不起落后于竞争对手的后果.

The country cannot afford to put so many people out to pasture.

这个国家担负不起这么多人的养老生活。

We cannot afford to waste any more time.

我们不能再浪费更多的时间。

We cannot afford to take risks when peoples' lives are at stake.

现在人命交关，不容我们有闪失。

And we cannot afford to get it wrong.

我们没有作错误选择的余地。

The government cannot afford to be indifferent to public opinion.

政府不可不关注舆论。

I cannot afford to waste my time make money.

我抽不出时间来浪费于赚钱。

Most patients cannot afford to be treated on time, and they die.

绝大多数患者因得不到及时治疗，最终不幸去世。

You cannot afford to relax your concentration for a moment.

你必须集中精力，一刻都不能松懈。

These are people who cannot afford to send money but do.

有些不能送钱却出力者。

But the rejected lover or mate cannot afford to believe that his beloved has freely turned away from him — and so he ascribes sinister or magical properties to the interloper.

但是，遭离弃的情人或配偶无法相信她的心上人是自由地背离他的——因而他归咎于插足者心术不正或迷人有招。

That is a system we cannot afford to lose.

我们不能再失去一个星系了。

Most of them cannot afford to take public transport to the hospital.

多数人没有钱乘坐公交车辆到医院去。

I just cannot afford to keep myself

我难以维持生计。

We cannot afford to ignore this warning.

我们对这个警告绝不能等闲视之。

This is an opportunity we cannot afford to let slip.

我们无法承担失去这个机会的后果。

I cannot afford to offend him.

我惹不起他.