A former teaching assistant recently wrote to the New York Times about his experience with grade expectations.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

People's expectations were so high we didn't know if what we were publishing was going the meet those expectations.

我们不知道该网站,能否满足人们的期望,好消息是我们再一次。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

and it was just kind of in general, you know, people's expectations were building onto each other.

而且通常来说，你知道，人们的期望是结合在一起的。

美国的会计丑闻 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Saturday and Sunday. One subject for discussion will be falling expectations for world economic growth.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

The virtual work of the reader does not involve surprise, does not involve the violation of expectations.

读者的虚功中没有惊讶，也没有期望的违背。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Too many in the region wake up with few expectations other than making it through the day, and perhaps the hope that their luck will change."

VOA: special.2011.05.21

All of Milton's expectations that England might actually be transformed, and they were glorious expectations, into something like a Puritan utopia or even a Puritan paradise -- all of that had been destroyed.

弥尔顿壮丽的期望，将英格兰转变成一个，清教徒乌托邦，甚至是清教徒天堂的期望,统统破灭了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Sebastien Galy says growth expectations for the euro area have dropped.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

What will make a difference to our levels of wellbeing is if we have right vs. wrong expectations.

能影响幸福水平的,是我们的期望是正确还是错误。

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Shoulders stooped, broad back Bent with weighted expectations from Umi,Khaltu,Fatima and Baba Eagerly awaiting your return, the Conquering hero With Big Macs And blue jeans For all They tricked us.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

And, we enter into a contract. You walk in here, you have certain expectations of me.

我们就定下了契约，我走进来，你对我会有所期待。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Forty-seven comments followed a story about college student grade expectations.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

So what are the expectations over the course of these few weeks?

那么短短数周,在这门课上你们需要做的是什么？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

These mismatched expectations can just lead to problems."

VOA: special.2011.02.14

The Los Angeles people had extravagantly high expectations.

洛杉矶人的预期高的夸张

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"The committee continues to anticipate that the economic conditions -- including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends and stable inflation expectations -- are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate for an extended period."

VOA: special.2011.04.29

This brings us to the final-- the issue of expectations and how we judge people is a story that could be told about individuals but it's also a story that could be told about groups.

这让我们谈到最后一个问题-,关于期望的问题,我们如何评价他人,不仅对个人有影响,对群体也会有影响。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says there are some encouraging signs about the economy, but he was quick to temper expectations.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

they have a lot of high expectations about what they're going to get for their money. So,

对于拿钱买什么的问题，他们有很高的期望。所以，

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How,one asks,will the government satisfy the energy demands resulting from the rising expectations of its 1.3 billion, consumer-hungry people?

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

I guess there are kind of, you know, different cultural norms in different societal expectations

我觉得有好几个，比如不同的文化准则，不同的社会价值观

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Baswedan says there is growing concern that President Obama cannot live up to high expectations Indonesians have set for him.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

but if everyone's expectations and hopes are raised up, then that brings the fair value up.

但如果人人的预期和希望都增高了，公允价值也相应高了。

美国的会计丑闻 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Herzog said Israel does not know what Hamas's demands are and therefore "it would be appropriate to keep expectations realistic."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

where you don't have any sort of expectations that you have to worry about from others.

你无需担心别人对你抱有过高的期待。

寻找幸福 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

On the positive side, the Commerce Department reports U.S.factory orders rose 0.4 percent in June, beating analysts' expectations.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

Which is a way of reminding you that I need to think as I write the code about what are my expectations from the input, and how might I enforce them.

通过这个我在提醒大家,在写代码的时候,要搞清楚对输入的期望，并思考下如何执行这些期望。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"Rome" and "Big Love." Poul says his challenge was to balance the expectations audiences have for this genre.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

So you can tell that people have very high expectations about Baidu or about a search engine.

你会发现人们对于百度,有很高的期望值。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

But we have very clear expectations about what we expect in classrooms,

我们会很明确地说出课堂上该做的事情，

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