I had expected her to confess that she only wrote these books for the money.

我曾期望她承认她写这些书仅仅是为了钱。

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The available pool of healthy manpower was not as large as military officials had expected.

一拨可用的健康劳力人数达不到军方官员们的期望值。

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It was much more enjoyable than I had expected.

它比我原先想的要令人愉快得多。

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On Tuesday, policy makers at the central bank said economic growth so far this year has been "considerably slower" than they had expected.

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And this is what they had expected that there would be no relationship, but instead here they saw that there was a linear relationship not to the intensity and the kinetic energy of the electrons, but to the intensity and the number of electrons.

另外一个实验,他们预期这两者没有关系,但他们看到的不是,光强和电子动能的,线性关系，而是光强,和电子数的线性关系。

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You could always find a portfolio that had a higher expected return for the same standard deviation.

你总是可以找到一个投资组合,具有较高的预期回报,而标准差不变。

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The age profile of the audience was far more mixed than I had expected.

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Meanwhile, sales have come in below forecasts, declining 0.2%, while analysts had expected 0.5% growth.

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She had expected this to be as simple as the signing of a check, a payment.

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