prohibitively expensive

基本解释

Sayuki is keen to revive this tradition, with the aim of funding the training of new geisha, otherwise prohibitively expensive for many.
纱幸很希望恢复这一传统，从而为培养新人提供资金支持，不然学费会贵到很多人无法承担。
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。

Until now, suitable alternatives have been either unavailable in this area or prohibitively expensive.
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In a conventional fossil-fuel plant that's prohibitively expensive, since the CO2 is mixed in with nitrogen.
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