Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job.

工资一直是最大的威慑因素，因为有家庭的人往往觉得，当他们找一份大学工作时，他们担负不起薪水的下降。

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In some countries, children with this defect are often abandoned at birth because their parents feel ashamed of them or cannot afford the operations.

在一些国家，有这种缺陷的孩子往往一出生就被遗弃，因为他们的父母为他们感到羞耻，或者他们负担不起手术费用。

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They cannot afford the expenses of schooling and need help.

他们支付不起学费也很需要帮助。

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In the future, project organizers want to have international donors buy the kits for girls and young women who cannot afford them.

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Or this community that doesn't have safe drinking water so regularly children die of diarrhea because they cannot afford to treat their water, they don't have the fuel to boil their water or something.

可能还有这样一个地方，那里没有安全的饮用水,孩子们时常死于痢疾,因为他们拿不出钱对水进行处理，也没有燃料来把水烧开。

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The long-term fiscal challenge is largely a product of promises in our entitlement programs, medicare, medicate and social security that we have made the future generations that we cannot afford to keep.

长期财政挑战很大一部分原因,是我们承诺了很多津贴项目，我们承诺给下一代的,医疗保险和社会保险,而现在我们又没法兑现。

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The authorities cannot afford the political risk of any infection there, our correspondent says.

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And on issue after issue, we cannot afford the next four years going backward.

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Furthermore, self-publisher authors simply cannot afford the sale-or-return conditions that are standard across the industry.

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