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• A good life affords consolation in old age.
  • Une bonne vie apporte une consolation lorsque l'on est vieux.
• I think we can afford the extra hour it will take.
  • Je pense que l’on peut se permettre de prendre une heure de plus pour cela.
• By the end of eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one connexion that might possibly assist her. (Mansfield Park - Jane Austen)
  • Au bout de onze ans cependant, madame Price ne put se résoudre à conserver plus long-temps de l’orgueil et du ressentiment, et à perdre une liaison de famille qui pouvait lui donner de l’assistance
• I have fallen insensibly into this habit, both because it favours my infirmity and because it affords me greater opportunity of speculating on the characters and occupations of those who fill the streets. (The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens)
  • Cette habitude, je l’ai insensiblement contractée ; d’abord, parce qu’elle est favorable à mon infirmité, et ensuite parce qu’elle me fournit le meilleur moyen d’établir mes observations sur le caractère et les occupations des gens qui remplissent les rues
• I can’t afford this car, I don’t have enough money.
  • Je ne peux pas m'offrir cette voiture, je n'ai pas assez d'argent.
• A affords his goods cheaper than B.
  • A propose des produits moins chers que B.
• Olives afford oil.
  • Les olives donnent de l’huile.
• The earth affords fruit.
  • la terre produit des fruits.
• The sea affords an abundant supply of fish.
  • La mer fournit du poisson en abondance.
• I think we can afford the extra hour it will take.  We can only afford to buy a small car at the moment.
• “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?”
• A affords his goods cheaper than B.  A man can afford a sum yearly in charity.
• Grapes afford wine.  Olives afford oil.  The earth affords fruit.  The sea affords an abundant supply of fish.
• One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
• Writing a “Treehouse Of Horror”segment has to be both exhilarating and daunting. It’s exhilarating because it affords writers all the freedom in the world.