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Shipping our television to the UK was out of the question—not only would it have been prohibitively expensive, it was unlikely to work here anyway.
把我们的电视运到英国是绝对不可能的，不仅仅因为高昂的运输费用，还因为在这里它根本不能工作。
Many times we have to communicate with people who are far away. Traveling to meet them would be both prohibitively expensive and take a great deal of time.
在许多情况下，我们必须和远方的人沟通，而专程去见他们，费用可能贵得离谱，而且又要花费很多时间。
When we use it up, we'll have to wait million of years for it to build back up, or figure out some non-prohibitively expensive way to recover it from the atmosphere.
用光之后，我们将不得不等上数十亿年使它们重新产生，或者想出一些不至于昂贵到令我们望而却步的点子，直接从大气中收集氦气。

.. So for most people it was prohibitively-- We're talking in today's prices, roughly speaking.
所以这会使大多数人望而却步-,我以现在的物价水平做参照，大概而已。
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Until now, suitable alternatives have been either unavailable in this area or prohibitively expensive.
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And if they cannot find a job, they will find the cities prohibitively expensive.
ECONOMIST: But only for a select few
In other words, the barriers to entry in many market segments are prohibitively high.
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