Take Wes's Christmas list, which is looking more and more hope-less.
比如说维斯的圣诞清单,越看越觉得无望。
I should hope a little less and try a little more.
我应该少期盼一点,多尝试一点。
Maybe you're crazy and hope to become less crazy.
也许是你觉得自己疯了,所以希望能够不那么疯。
And although they are not less likely to divorce, they are more likely to remarry - an act that is, as Samuel Johnson wrote, the triumph of hope over experience.
虽然他们并不是更少可能离婚,但他们更容易再婚——这种行为,塞缪尔·约翰逊曾写到,是希望在与经历的对抗中取得了胜利。
We hope they will be tools that enable you to enjoy more and worry less.
我们希望他们成为使你更好的体验,更少烦恼的工具。
In theory, River's relegation should give hope and faith to supporters of Argentina's dozens of less storied clubs, by proving that no team is immune from mismanagement.
理论上,河床队降级应该带给阿根廷许多名不见经传的俱乐部更多希望和信心,借以证明没有一支球队可以免于经营不当。
If it's compatible with mine (for example, you like me) then I hope it won't change to something less compatible. I track and seek reliability.
如果这个是和我兼容的(譬如,你喜欢我)那么我希望它不要变得不兼容,我追踪并且寻找可靠性。
The opportunity to make change gives me great hope that in time, I will be more with less.
改变的机会让我重燃希望:在不久的将来,我会将失去活成一种获得。
Against that background, they have started a process that they hope will lead to more appropriate and less risky audit practices.
这样的背景下,他们启动了一个程序,并希望该程序可以使其从事的审计业务更为合理,风险也更小。
And there was, in fact, less success than advertised.They were too cantankerous to fly as often or as inexpensively as planned, so the hope of doing things more cheaply in space evaporated.
实际上航天飞机发射成功的次数要比宣传中的少。操纵维修保养复杂,也不像计划中的那么廉价,经常导致无法正常工作,使得在太空中做一些性价比更高的事情的希望消失了。
The job market is getting less bad, but a full recovery remains a distant hope.
就业市场状况不那么糟糕了,但复苏的希望依然渺茫。
Agencies working inside the country hope so: to respond to the cyclone some had to divert resources from other parts of the country where the situation is scarcely less awful than in the delta.
在该国的工作机构希望如此:为了应对飓风,不得不从缅甸其他灾情较轻地区调转资源。
My hope is that, by the end of the week, this will sound a little less mad than it does at the beginning.
我希望到这周末时我写的东西不像开始时那么疯狂。
As the poet Terence, the Roman poet once said, he said, "the less my hope, the hotter my love."
就像罗马诗人特伦斯曾说过的:“我的祈求越少,我的爱情便越炽烈。”
Some of the companies that run the telecoms networks over which Joost and other bandwidth-hungry services hope to run are less confident that the internet's foundations are ready to bear the strain.
一些运营电信网络的公司都对因特网基础设施是否准备好了承担带宽压力缺乏自信,Joost和其他类似带宽要求较高服务希望在它们的网络之上开展。
My wife told me when I left Peking, 'when you're in New York, I hope you smoke less, drink less, and eat fewer sweets.'
我离开北京时内子跟我说‘在纽约少抽烟、少吃甜食。’
He thinks Norway should set an example by producing less oil and gas in the hope that other countries respond in equally high-minded fashion.
他认为,挪威应该减少石油与天然气的产量来树立一个榜样,以此希望其它国家也以同样高的姿态做出回应。
Perhaps because of my stumblings and fits of coughing, the story of my poor Laura had less success with my listeners than it will have, I hope, with intelligent reviewers when properly published.
也许因为我讲得结结巴巴,又老是咳嗽,所以在这些听众里,我可怜的劳拉的故事没有受到我希望等它出版的时候,在聪明的书评家那里受到的成功。
We hoped that our good fortune would continue into the decidedly less flat regions of the Austrian Alps; as the cloud-tipped mountains on the horizon grew closer, though, that hope began to diminish.
我们希望如此好运能延续到奥地利不再那么平坦的阿尔卑斯山区,但是当地平线上被乌云笼罩的高山越来越近时,我们的希望也开始变得渺茫了。
My next installment will discuss what this vulnerability is, how to counter it, and why there's hope that this will become less of a problem in the future.
我的下一期文章将论述这个漏洞是什么样的,如何进行防范,以及为什么可以期望它未来将不再是问题。
There is hope, though, for republicans in the fact that the most enthusiastic supporters of the monarchy are pensioners, and young people are less keen.
但是,对王室最热心的支持者大多是领退休金的人士,青年人热情相对较低,这又让共和派人士看到希望。
I did not discover that Hamlet had his self-possession from no schooling but from indifference and passion conquering sweetness, and that less heroic minds can but hope it from old age.
我所不知道的是,哈姆雷特的冷静并非来自于教育,而是出自那种压倒和颜悦色的冷漠和激情,魄力匮乏之人,唯独在老时方能期盼拥有。
She has little money left and even less hope of victory.
她几乎没有余钱了,胜利的希望更不消谈。
I hope, but am less than fully confident, that Japan will be up to the challenge.
我希望日本能够应对这场挑战,但对此没有绝对的信心。
But, while the high expectations for 2010 were not met, we think activity in 2011 could pick up by at least 15% to 20% in what we hope should be a less volatile environment.
然而,我们还没有看到2010年的高预期,我们认为,在2011年的很少波动的环境中我们希望至少减少15%到20%。
I hope my advice will be more or less helpful to you.
希望我的建议对你多少有些帮助。
Kasparov, he says, "thrives on pressure situations" and may play less aggressive chess at a leisurely pace. Let's hope so.
他说卡斯帕罗夫“在压力状态下比较活跃”,这种悠然的速度可能会使他下棋的进攻性弱一些。
Today the hope is that customers will be less panicky.
今天我们只能把希望寄托在顾客不要那般恐慌上。
Today the hope is that customers will be less panicky.
今天我们只能把希望寄托在顾客不要那般恐慌上。
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