It used to be just prohibitively expensive.

它曾经贵让望而却步。

And building new plants has become prohibitively expensive.

而且，建造新工厂的成本已经高望而却步。

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望而却步。

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

政府使外国想要做空受重创的货币变异常困难。

Seven, look into hiring a developer on Upwork and quickly realize it's prohibitively expensive.

七，考虑在 Upwork 上雇佣开发者，并迅速意识到这费用高离谱。

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，十分高。

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：模糊性使风险无法投保，或者至少保险的高望而却步。

Right now, for most people, for the general consumer, it's prohibitively expensive because it's expensive for us to produce one.

现在，对大多数来说、对普通消费者来说，太贵了，因为本身我们生产一辆车的成本就非常高。

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

对于一家小型银行来说， 这可能会非常贵。

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

那是因为这些书很厚很贵。

In some places, it's prohibitively difficult  to lay cables.

在某些地方，铺设电缆非常困难。

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

深水意味着基础非常贵。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国贵望而却步。

Legal fees can be prohibitively expensive, particularly for individuals from lower-income backgrounds.

法律费用可能非常贵，尤其是对于来自低收入背景的个。

So how did solar energy go from prohibitively expensive to cheaper than fossil fuels?

那么，太阳能是如何从贵到比化石燃料便宜的呢？

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，保释金中位数已经达到了一万美元，这个对近半数的美国公民和九成的被告来说，是一笔巨款。

By the time Carter took office, energy had become prohibitively expensive, and the nation's energy consumption was more than twice that of other developed nations.

卡特上任时，能源已经变贵望而却步，美国的能源消耗是其他发达国家的两倍多。