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Expect
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
想要收获自由之果的人，必须象人一样，承受维护自由的劳苦。
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
一分钟的完美是值得付出努力的。一个瞬间是你对完美的最大期待。
I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.
我不喜欢人们期望太高，因为只有当事情没有成功时，我才会感到失望。
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
如果你写的是体裁小说，你就得遵守规则，而且你必须遵守规则，因为读者是这样期望的。
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
我们从来没有兴趣重复自己或做别人希望我们做的事，这是如此令人厌烦。
You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.
你不能把别人的希望和恐惧都装在背包里，然后指望自己能站直。
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
女人期望男人建造她想要的世界，而不是自己创造，这是多么错误的想法。
I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.
我学会了永远不要期望别人比他们更好，但要始终相信他们可以做得更好。
Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
也许你能从一段变糟的关系中期待的最多的就是走出这段关系，唱几首好听的歌。
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
对我来说，金钱从来都不是一个很大的动力，除了作为一种记分的方式。真正令人兴奋的是玩这个游戏。
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
凡夺取自由城而不拆毁的，就是犯了大错误，自害己命。
I want to be able to do anything. I know it's probably not reasonable to expect, but that's what I'd like to do.
我想做任何事。我知道这可能是不合理的期望，但这就是我想做的。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
在我看来，我们对彼此的期望越来越低，我认为这种情况应该改变。
What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
我对影评人的期望是，他应该和我一样热爱电影。
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.
忘记的错误。忘记失败。忘记一切，除了你现在要做的，然后去做。
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
为这个世界做计划，就像你希望永生一样;但要为来世做计划，就像你期待明天就会死去一样。
Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.
失业对个人的影响比你想象的还要大。除了明显的危害——贫困、难以偿还债务——它似乎直接影响人们的健康，尤其是老年工人的健康。
That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.
这是你永远不会想到的悲伤，这是多么激烈的竞争啊。