A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
预期
Expected
I expected results.
我预期的结果。
I expected to go into journalism or law.
我想从事新闻或法律工作。
I have always... expected a lot from myself.
我一直……对自己期望很高。
Film-making was not at all what I had expected.
电影制作完全出乎我的意料。
You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.
你知道,我从来没有想过要进入电影行业。
I fell in love with someone i never expected to fall for.
我爱上了一个我从未想过会爱上的人。
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
人们普遍认为奴隶不仅要工作,还要唱歌。
I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.
我害怕辜负人们对我的期望。
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
人的本性在一天之内是不会改变的。
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.
任何尊重的困难之处在于对你的期望更高。
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
只有弱者才残忍。温柔只能从坚强中期待。
Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.
一旦艺术家们被认为会震惊,他们就更难做到这一点。
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The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.
他们最不希望看到的电影剧本是那个滑稽的金发女演员,她的声音很有趣。
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
当人们对一个人有很高的期望时,他可能会提升到事件的水平,使梦想成真。
I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.
在我的家庭里,加入工会是理所当然的事。我一直认为雇主和员工之间的关系从根本上是不平等的。
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
如果我留在智利,我想我不会成为一名作家。我将被困在家务琐事中,在家庭中,在人们期望我成为的那个人里。
I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.
我几乎没有料到大陪审团会支持我,因为他们看到的一切都与我在那里时不同。然而,他们确实这样做了,他们向法院提交的报告建议了我提出的所有修改。
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
我从来没有想过自己会以某种附属物的身份与雄性领袖联系在一起,直到今天,这仍然让我感到困惑。