Meat and butter were prohibitively expensive.

肉和奶油都贵得买不起。

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Car insurance can be prohibitively expensive for young drivers.

汽车保险费有时高得让年轻开车人承受不起。

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Now, new technology makes it easier, faster, and cheaper to identify and serve targeted micro-markets in ways that were physically impossible or prohibitively expensive in the past.

现在，新技术使识别和服务目标微市场变得更容易、更快捷、更便宜；这在过去是不可能实现的，或者是代价非常昂贵的。

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.. 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.

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The route, they said, is prohibitively expensive due to China's high permit and guide fees.

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