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单词 prohibitively
释义
prohibitively
adverb
uk
/prəˈhɪb.ɪ.tɪv.li/us
/proʊˈhɪb.ə.t̬ɪv.li/
in a way that is tooexpensiveor too much:
贵得令人望而却步地，价格高得让人不敢问津地；过分地
Property in theareatendsto be prohibitivelyexpensive.该地区的房产往往贵得令人却步。
If theauthorsaddedmoredetailto everytopic, thebookwould be prohibitivelylarge.如果作者们在每个题目上都添枝加叶，那么整本书的篇幅就会大得让人望文生畏。
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Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to be expensive
  • cost a (small) fortuneThis trip cost a fortune.
  • cost an arm and a legDrinks at that club cost an arm and a leg.
  • be daylight robberyWhat they're charging to get in is daylight robbery.
  • be highway robbery$50 for two drinks? That's highway robbery!
  • be a rip-off£200 for a concert ticket is a total rip-off.
  • be prohibitively expensiveThe cost of textbooks alone makes schooling prohibitively expensive for many.
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More examples
  • Thecostofprintingbooksin one-countrylanguagesis prohibitively high.
  • It is anexpensivecartorun,althoughnot prohibitively so.
  • Winning anelectionagainst anincumbentcanbecomeprohibitivelydifficult.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Costing too much
  • a bottomless pitidiom
  • bottomless
  • capital intensive
  • cheap
  • cheap at half the priceidiom
  • cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
  • costsomeonea pretty pennyidiom
  • costsomeonedearidiom
  • daylight robbery
  • dear
  • exorbitant
  • gouge
  • non-competitive
  • outprice
  • pretty
  • price fixing
  • pricesomeoneout
  • priceyourselfout of the marketidiom
  • prohibitive
  • sight
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(Definition ofprohibitivelyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

prohibitively| Business English

prohibitively
adverb
uk
/prəˈhɪbɪtɪvli/us
more than mostpeopleareabletopay:
Property in theareatendsto beprohibitivelyexpensive.
prohibitively high/costly/largeThecostof retrofittingexistingaircraftwould be prohibitively high.
(Definition ofprohibitivelyfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprohibitively

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This would reduce the problem once more to determining sequences of scalars and, if one chooses well, their number need not beprohibitivelylarge.
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For more complicated constructions, such as the interpretation of polymorphic and recursive types, it appears that our external approach would becomeprohibitivelyoverburdened with detail.
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For example, without further optimization such an implementation isprohibitivelyinefficient in terms of storage consumption when large arrays are used.
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Sample sizes are in generalprohibitivelysmall, and the informative matings will not always be available.
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For structures with the total number of members that we are considering, the computation time for global optimization isprohibitivelylong.
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The task of devising an ' artificial ' allotment norm wasprohibitivelycomplex.
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Fully replicated designs areprohibitivelyexpensive and are unnecessary from a statistical perspective.
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Once the populations of these invaders are large enough to cause considerable damage, it may beprohibitivelyexpensive to control them.
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This would beprohibitivelyinefficient as a first-order deliberation procedure, even in easy cases.
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In particular, some households may be located in isolated areas where transaction costs areprohibitivelyhigh, such that not trading in any market is optimal.
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Fourthly, such eduction of the naturally occurring structures would beprohibitivelytime-consuming.
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To replicate season-long field trials with a significant proportion of the possible combinations of such variables would be an immense andprohibitivelyexpensive undertaking.
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However, given the modest prevalence of most disorders the sample size would beprohibitivelylarge.
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Although simultaneous lifting is more general, it is usuallyprohibitivelyexpensive computationally.
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This would beprohibitivelyexpensive to do for a full vocabulary.
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