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prohibitively + adj.
prohibitively 常修饰 expensive、costly、high 等表示价格或难度的形容词，强调高到让人无法承受或尝试。
The airfare was prohibitively expensive, so we decided to take the train.
机票贵得令人望而却步，所以我们决定坐火车。
过度地；令人望而却步地
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
过度地；令人望而却步地
to a prohibitive degree
The airfare was prohibitively expensive, so we decided to take the train.
机票贵得令人望而却步，所以我们决定坐火车。
常修饰形容词，如 expensive：贵得买不起。
以禁止的方式
In a prohibitive manner.
达到令人望而却步的程度
To a prohibitive extent.
The rent in this area is prohibitively expensive for most young workers.
这个地区的房租贵得令大多数年轻工人望而却步。
Traveling to the remote island was prohibitively costly, so we decided to stay home.
去那座偏远岛屿旅行费用高得令人却步，所以我们决定待在家里。
The software license is prohibitively priced for small businesses.
这款软件的授权价格高得让小型企业难以承受。
prohibitively 常修饰 expensive、costly、high 等表示价格或难度的形容词，强调高到让人无法承受或尝试。
The airfare was prohibitively expensive, so we decided to take the train.
机票贵得令人望而却步，所以我们决定坐火车。
过去分词如 priced 与 prohibitively 搭配时，同样表示“定价高到让人买不起”。
Many cancer drugs are prohibitively priced for patients in developing countries.
许多抗癌药物对发展中国家的患者而言，价格高得令人望而却步。
find + 宾语 + prohibitively + 形容词 是常见句型，用于表达主观感受。
I found the application process prohibitively complicated.
我觉得申请过程复杂得令人望而却步。
Not this
The rent is prohibitive high.
Use this
The rent is prohibitively high.
形容词 prohibitive 不能直接修饰形容词 high，而应使用副词 prohibitively 表示“高得令人无法承受”。
Not this
The cost of the apartment is prohibitively.
Use this
The cost of the apartment is prohibitive.
prohibitively 是副词，不能单独作 be 动词的表语；此处需要形容词 prohibitive 表示“高得让人承受不起”。
Not this
Smoking is prohibitively in the building.
Use this
Smoking is prohibited in the building.
prohibitively 意为“过度地”，不表示“被禁止地”；要表达“被禁止”应使用动词 prohibit 的过去分词 prohibited。
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过于昂贵，贵得令人望而却步
The rent in the city center is prohibitively expensive for most young workers.
市中心的房租对大多数年轻工人来说贵得令人望而却步。
高得难以承受
The cost of this treatment remains prohibitively high for many patients.
这种治疗的费用对许多患者来说仍然高得难以承受。
昂贵得难以承担
Rebuilding the entire bridge would be prohibitively costly for the town.
为这个城镇重建整座桥将昂贵得难以承担。
难到让人无法做到
Without proper equipment, the climb is prohibitively difficult.
没有合适的装备，这次攀登难到让人无法完成。
耗时多得令人无法接受
Manual data entry is prohibitively time-consuming for large projects.
手工录入数据对大型项目来说耗时多得令人无法接受。
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联想 prohibit（禁止）：价格高到像被禁止购买一样，令人望而却步。
语域：formal 常见场景：学术写作、新闻报道、商务讨论 该词比较常见于正式书面语，多与 expensive 等形容词连用，强调程度高到让人无法承担或接受；日常口语中较少单独使用，常用 too... 来表达类似意思。
Only inhibitively (/ɪnˈhɪbɪtɪvli/) rhymes fully with prohibitively, because the stressed vowel and everything after it match. Words such as positively (/ˈpɒzətɪvli/), creatively (/kriˈeɪtɪvli/), relatively (/ˈrelətɪvli/) and natively (/ˈneɪtɪvli/) are spelling lookalikes sharing the ending -itively, but they have a different stressed vowel or rhythm and do not rhyme.
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