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期望
Expectation
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
当你发表演讲时，你会引起人们对你的期望，而你将被追究责任。
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
别人可能对我期望不高……但我对自己有很高的期望。
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
男人……经过磨练，会变得更好，变得更好，并从破碎的希望和破灭的期望中提炼出来。
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
我们喜欢期待，当期待不是失望就是满足时，我们希望再次期待。
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
现在对我的期望是，我要反抗期望，所以我基本上可以自由地写我想写的东西。
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
作为一名人道主义者，意味着在你死后努力举止得体，而不期望得到奖赏或惩罚。
It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
当你看电影的时候，没有期待总是好的。然后你可能会感到高兴、失望或惊讶。
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
我不是为了不辜负别人的期望而活在这个世界上的，我也不觉得这个世界必须不辜负我的期望。
It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.
这是每个孩子都应该学习的一课:不要玩火，尖锐的物体，或古老的工艺品。
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
只有通过提高期望和追求卓越，我们的孩子才能充分发挥他们的潜力。
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
不，我做我的工作不是为了挑战或混淆别人的期望——我只是做我觉得自然的事情。
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
世上所有的快乐在期待中都比在享受中更甜蜜;但所有属灵的喜乐，都是结果多于期望。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
概率是建立在部分知识基础上的期望。完全了解所有影响事件发生的情况，就会把期望变成确定性，从而为概率理论留下空间和需求。
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
我可以建立报应正义的期望。我们做到了吗?不。
Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
不要被别人的期望所限制。你可以做得更好，做得更多。
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
当然，现代自然科学的进步远远超出了所有人的预期，任何有关自然科学可能存在某些局限性的说法，都必然会引起怀疑。
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
年轻的头脑很少能完全摆脱野心;抑制这种情绪是获得满足感的第一步，因为减少期望就是增加快乐。