Prohibitive

(adj.) tending to discourage (especially of prices); 'the price was prohibitive' .

整理:劳埃德

• The tremendous problems of heat and the prohibitive quantities of copper that would be required for conductors for such lamps would be absolutely out of the question in commercial practice. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• As he contemplated the concentration of six thousand tons daily, the expense of manual labor to move such an immense quantity of rock, sand, and ore would be absolutely prohibitive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• They are overwhelmingly rich in biographic material, but analysis would be a prohibitive task for one person, and perhaps interesting only to technical readers. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

编辑:西尔维亚