vt.买得起;担负得起;提供;给予;
例句:
I can ill afford the time.
我怕没有时间.
We must limit our expense to what we can afford.
我们必须不使开支超出我们的支付能力
He told me that the firm could not afford to pay such large salaries?
他告诉我说,公司付不起那么多薪水了.