The nurses' pay award was not as much as they had expected.
护士的工资远没有她们料想的那么多。
It didn't take long, however, for them to discover that the reality was not as bright as they had expected.
然而，没过多久，他们发现实际情况并没有他们预计的那么好。
The report said the measure had prevented sales from falling as far as they would otherwise have done and could be expected to increase purchases by 1.2% over the course of 2009.
该报告称，削减附加税可以避免销售额预期中的大幅下滑，并在2009年将购买额提高1.2%。
I expected that everyone would say they were agile and that they would behave in many ways exactly as they always had.
我期望大家都说他们是敏捷的，他们在许多方面会表现地与自己一贯的做法完全一致。
We should have expected them, and yet they came as a surprise and made us reflect on what had occurred not that long ago in the fields we were passing.
我们本来应该想到会看见这些墓地，但它们仍使我们感到意外，并让我们想到在不太久的以前，在我们经过的这片田野上发生过怎样的事情。
That may not sound like much - it's what a typical washing machine USES for a load - but it's almost twice as much as researchers had initially measured and more than they ever expected to find.
那可能听起来不是很多——典型的洗衣机的容量可。但是，它几乎是研究人员起初测量和预期发现的两倍。
Of course, I had emailed a handful of my best friends by the time 9 a.m. hit this morning, and -- as is to be expected -- they all responded sympathetically.
当然，我给一票好友发了电邮，今早收到了回复，并且--如我所愿--她们都充满同情地回复了我。
This was the most surprising finding, Terracciano told Psychiatric News, because they had expected it to be linked with neuroticism, not extraversion, as some previous studies had found.
泰拉恰诺告诉《精神科新闻》（Psychiatric News），这是最出乎意料之外的发现。因为他们预想的是，它会与神经过敏症相关，而不是心理外向性——这和以前的研究成果一致。
As expected, the fewest tourists purchased photos when they had to pay full price.
正如研究人员所料，当不得不支付全价时，很少有游客购买照片。
They had not been flying for long, however, when it began to rain — as the second crow had expected it would.
可是，没飞多久，天就开始下起雨来——果然不出第二只乌鸦所料。
Maybe it was because I had expected too much from them, they didn't seem as good as I thought.
但可能是期望值太高了，味道并没有我想象中的那么好。
European Americans had, as expected, continued their slow decline in percentage of the total U. S. population, though they were still dominant at about 76%.
欧裔美国人一如所料在美国人口总数所占的百分比继续迟缓下降，虽然他们还占大约76%的绝大多数。
When the search party found me that night, they were happy, relieved, and proud—not angry, as I had expected.
当晚搜寻孩子的那队人马找到我时，他们可高兴了，松了口气，还挺自豪的——没有一丝恼怒，正如我所料。
When the search party found me that night, they were happy, relieved, and proud—not angry, as I had expected.
当晚搜寻孩子的那队人马找到我时，他们可高兴了，松了口气，还挺自豪的——没有一丝恼怒，正如我所料。
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