Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

我们的欲望总是使我们失望;因为虽然我们遇到了一些让我们满意的事情，但它从来没有完全满足我们的期望。

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

我们的环境，我们生活和工作的世界，是我们态度和期望的一面镜子。

People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.

人们不为事物所扰，而是为他们对事物的看法所扰。

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

人们把你看成一个物体，而不是一个人，他们把一套期望投射到你身上。没有美丽的人认为美丽是一种福气，但实际上它使你与众不同。

Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

重新审视你在学校、教堂或任何书上听到的一切。摒弃任何侮辱你灵魂的东西。

Some are so perfectly prepared for the expected that they are defeated by the unexpected.

有些人对意料之外的事情准备得如此充分，以至于他们被意料之外的事情打败了。

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

好书开卷引人入胜，闭卷引人入胜。

The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.

这座城市超出了我们的预期。滑铁卢车站基普林式的宏伟，切尔西砖砌街道上精英阶层的沮丧，狄更斯式的雾霾噩梦，汗流浃背的人行道，脏兮兮的飞檐。

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

人生的期望在于勤奋;想把工作做得完美无缺的机修工，必须先磨砺工具。

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

超越客户期望的第一步是了解这些期望。

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

好的一面是，女性对男性的期望如此之高，这激励我们不辜负他们。这就是我对男女关系的理解。

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

对我们大多数人来说，更大的危险不在于把目标定得太高而达不到;而是把我们的目标定得太低，达到我们的目标。

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

这个行业总体上相当沙文主义。对女人，女孩的期望，她们应该是什么样子，她们应该是什么样子，她们应该说什么，她们应该穿什么，她们的头发应该是什么样子，她们的皮肤应该是什么颜色。

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

冷的期望和热的欲望之间的间隔可以由不同程度的温暖的期望或不同程度的冷的欲望来填补。

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

唯一明智的人是我的裁缝;每次他看见我，都把我的尺寸重新量了一遍，而其余的人都继续用他们的旧尺寸，希望它们能适合我。