We didn't really have any expectation of which direction it could go into."

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

I'd be much happier if I don't care, if I lower my levels of expectation.

不在乎会让我更快乐，如果我降低期望水平。

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The moral is that reciprocity is friendship and so good, all to the good, but as I say there's a moment of suspense in the expectation at the point in the text when we expect a moral but we don't know what the moral is going to be.

寓意是，相互关爱就是友谊，它如此美好，对双方都有好处，但正如我所说，也有那么一刻，期望面临悬念,在当我们期待一个寓意,却不知道那个寓意将是什么的时候。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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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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

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