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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.
我告诉大家,我计划带他一起上路。至少,我完全预料到自己会保持忙碌的步伐,以及作为一名战地记者的激情。
Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
四个简短的词汇概括了成功的秘诀:多一点点!他们做了所有他们应该做的,甚至更多。
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?
然而,在经济学中,我们为什么要以不了解某些事实为借口,而在物理理论中,科学家肯定会根据这些事实提供准确的信息?
Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.
而且,我的妈妈和家人对我来说非常重要,我知道这是不可能的。
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。
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。