It used to be just prohibitively expensive.

它曾贵得让望而却步。

And building new plants has become prohibitively expensive.

而且，建造新工厂的成本已高得令望而却步。

But without ample government funding, they can be prohibitively expensive.

但如果没有充足的政府资金，它们的成本可能会高得令望而却步。

The government had made it prohibitively hard for foreigners to bet against the battered currency.

政府使得外想要做空受重创的货币变得异常困难。

These designs evolved to hold candles, as metal lanterns were prohibitively expensive for most people.

由于金属灯笼对大多数来说过于昂贵，这些设计逐渐演变成了盛放蜡烛的灯笼。

And it's prohibitively expensive to launch tons and tons of construction materials into space.

将成吨的建筑材料发射升空，价格十分高昂。

Ignorance of the future carries a cost today: ambiguity makes risks uninsurable, or at the very least prohibitively expensive.

对未来的无知在今天带来了代价：模糊性使风险无法投保，或者至少保险的价格高得令望而却步。

And for a small bank, that might be prohibitively expensive.

对于一家小型银行来说， 这可能会非常昂贵。

That's because the books are massive and prohibitively expensive.

那是因为这些书很厚很贵。

The deep water means that foundations are prohibitively expensive. So this bridge floats.

深水意味着基础非常昂贵。所以这座桥是漂浮的。

Cutting all those emissions, experts believed, was either technically unfeasible or prohibitively expensive.

专家认为，减少所有这些排放要么在技术上不可行，要么成本过高。

24.Cars are prohibitively expensive in some EU candidate countries.

24.汽车在一些欧盟候选贵得令望而却步。

Some publishers have refused to sell their e-books to public libraries, made them prohibitively costly or put severe restrictions on their use.

一些出版者拒绝向公共图书馆出手他们的电子书，这使得公众图书馆开销巨大而且在使用限制颇多。

Today, the median bail is $10,000 — a prohibitively high price for almost half of Americans, and as many as nine out of ten defendants.

时至今日，保释金中位数已达到了一万美元，这个价格对近半数的美公民和九成的被告来说，是一笔巨款。

The man came round with the trap, and Jude helped her into it, perhaps with unnecessary attention, for she looked at him prohibitively.

那带着陷阱走了过来， 裘德帮她进去了， 也许是不必要的关注， 因为她望着他望而却步。

In countries where meat is prohibitively expensive for many, people are sometimes vegetarian or vegan by necessity; in the affluent West, not eating meat is an active choice.

在有些家，肉类贵得令却步，们有时不得不成为素食主义者或纯素主义者；在富裕的西方，不吃肉是一个主动的选择。

Normally, this is a challenging problem because finding and simulating all the possible contacts between tens of thousands of interlinked pieces of geometry is a prohibitively long process.

通常来说，这是一个具有挑战性的问题，因为发现和模拟成千上万相互连接的几何体之间所有可能发生的联系是一个极其漫长的过程。

Previously calls were rated by a third countries driving out of the cost of a call to the US from Cuba and making it prohibitively expensive for ordinary Cubans.”

之前在古巴，打电话是需要由第三方家的，因此对古巴普通来说，从美打古巴的电话非常昂贵。”

They argued that the cost of replacing all of their equipment would be prohibitively expensive, and if they were forced to convert, it would damage American industry.

他们争辩说，更换所有设备的成本将高得令望而却步，如果他们被迫转换，则会损害美工业。

Well, even though bubble wrap was expensive in the long run, the alternative of inflating plastic cushions as orders are packaged could be prohibitively expensive to start up.

好吧，尽管从长远来看， 泡沫包装价格昂贵，但在包装订单时对塑料垫充气的替代方案启动起来可能会非常昂贵。