Mr Valls can ill afford to let the chaos continue.

瓦尔斯无法承担让混乱继续的局面。

At a time when unemployment is high, President Franois Hollande can ill afford to put more jobs in peril.

眼下法国就业陷入低迷状态，奥朗德总统当然不敢轻易让更多的工作遭遇危机。

Most gamblers can ill afford their habit.

【ill】大多数赌徒都承担不起赌博这个恶习所带来的后果。

We can ill afford to lose the 20th and the 21st century.

我们承受不起失去 20 世纪和 21 世纪的后果。

I was losing weight which I could ill afford to lose.

【ill】我的体重在减轻，已轻得不能再轻了。

It faces an even stiffer battle in the state Senate, where Mr Corbett can ill afford to lose a single Republican vote.

在州参议院，情况更加艰难，对Corbett来讲，一张共和党人的赞成票也丢不起。

With four hundred miles of trail still between him and Dawson, he could ill afford to have madness break out among his dogs.

离道森还有四百英里路程, 狗队要是发生狂犬病他可受不了。

In vain he offered two thousand dollars—twenty-two hundred, though they could ill afford it: Mr. Sohenberg was obdurate.

他提供了 2000 美元——2200 美元，但没有成功，尽管他们买不起：Sohenberg 先生很顽固。

" These are highly skilled people, many of whom we'd like to stay in this country and do highly skilled jobs. So there is this question of us losing talent in the UK, which we can ill afford to do."

“这些都是高技能的人， 我们中的许多人想留在这个国家， 从事高技能的工作。因此，我们在英国失去了人才， 这是我们负担不起的。