"My expectation is that we will probably continue to see unemployment tick up for several months,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

They love to kind of luxuriate in the opportunity to show off their voice on a leading tone, build up expectation, make you wait even more for that tonic.

他们总是喜欢借机,在导音部分卖弄下自己的歌喉,以增加听众的期望,让大家更渴望听到主音

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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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How do I give up my right to do whatever is in my power to secure my person or my possessions, when I have no expectation, you might say, ? that others around me are prepared to do so as well?

我怎么能在我不期望,身边的人会这样做的时候，放弃我保护自身和财产安全，不受侵害的权利？

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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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