However,in a meeting at the U.S. Capitol with House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, four prominent economists dampened that expectation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

Because now the expectation and the opportunity to build interfaith cooperation has grown and that gives me that much more to do."

因为现在对建立跨信仰合作的期望,和机会都增加了,这使我的任务更重“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I wanted to call attention to a few places in the text in which it is a question of expectation and of the way in which this expectation can be violated.

作品中有一些地方，我想引起大家的注意,那是一个关于，期望,和造成期望可违背的方式，的问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And,that is what our expectation is as well.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Followed by a long history of inferior schools and segregation, and also expectation, continued disparity in terms of school and education, which comes to another question.

经过了长时间的,低等教育和种族隔离，以及学校及教育上,长期的歧视和不平等，这就牵扯到了另一个问题。

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"There is a perception that President Obama brings with him a sensibility and sensitivity to the region and I think that will stand him in very good stead because there is already a very strong expectation that President Obama will set a new direction for US policy towards its partners, towards APEC, and in particular towards Asia."

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Now Mr. Milton took some risks when he separated himself from his cash and lent money to his clients, or lent more money to his clients than the collateral, the gold, was actually worth. And the motive for that risk, of course, the motive for that investment, was the expectation of a profit.

但是弥尔顿先生却冒着把自己和他的现金,也丢了的风险，或者借出去的钱比担保财产还要多，他这么投资的动机是，希望获得收益。

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They have risks that their overhead won't cover their risk is that a steady stream of people won't come and be making a steady stream of bets at which each of them has a slightly negative expectation.

他们的风险是能否支付管理费用,他们的风险是不再有稳定的客流来消费,同时每一个人都怀着一丝消极的期待,下源源不断的赌注。

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Expectation has been raised very high for this next thirty minutes and I know you will meet them.

观众们对接下来的半个小时都期望很高,但我相信您一定会不负众望。

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We have this suspense, as I say, between expectation, the possibility of violation, and simply not knowing.

我们有这么一个悬念，正如我所说的，在期望和期望被违背的可能性之间，而且我们完全不知道。

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All right. Now this is a wonderful example of the tension between having expectations, the expectation that someone will help Tony, and being in a state of suspense, not knowing who it will be.

好的，这是个很好的例子，来说明二者之间的张力,一个是有期望，期望有人会帮助托尼，另一个是处于一种悬念状态，不知道会是谁来帮托尼。

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A sense of reciprocity is establishedbetween the tow truck and the person who helps the tow truck out of being stuck -a fine sense of reciprocity, so the expectation is that there will be a moral.

在托运车和把托运车从困境中解救出来的人之间,建立起了一个互惠主义关系,相互帮助，一个很好的感觉，所以期待是这其中会有一个寓意。

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They told him that if earnings go up-- we try to keep a target payout ratio-- but if earnings suddenly shoot up, we're not going to increase our dividends right away because that would set too high an expectation and we don't want to have to cut it.

他们告诉他,如果收益提高,我们会努力维持既定的股利发放率,但如果收益大涨,我们不会马上提高股利,因为这样会导致过高的期望,我们也不想降低股利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I think it's wonderful because it "pulls up" just like Gadamer being "pulled up short," and there is, it seems to me, there's another crisis of expectation in this line in that especially as a toddler I need to negotiate that expression idiomatically.

我认为这非常好，因为“停下来“就像葛达玛的,“突然停下“一样，而依我看来，这里有另一个,期望危机，在这句话中，因为，特别是作为一个小孩,我需要用习惯性的表达法。

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