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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I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.
我想应征入伍。我知道我不会在第一天就被选中，因为没有很多人有机会看到我踢球。
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。
My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.
我母亲从来没有让我为我的兄弟们做过任何事，比如服侍他们。我认为这是很重要的一课，尤其是对拉丁文化来说，因为女性被期望成为服务员和厨师等等。我们家没有。每个人都是平等的。
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
对于一个作家来说，出版的作品就像落花，而期待的新作品就像等待开花的花萼。
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。