你休想指望我相信那种事！

You can't honestly expect me to believe that!

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如果一切都搞砸了，就别指望我来解救你。

Don't expect me to bail you out if it all goes wrong.

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你不能指望我挥动一下魔杖，便一切又平安无事了。

You can't expect me to just wave a (magic) wand and make everything all right again.

《牛津词典》

I want you to talk about them. But I don't expect you to become an English major in order to do that if you're not already one.

我不指望你因为要读这些而主修英语,如果你们现在主修的并不是英语的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Today, I'm gonna start writing C code with you but I can't just write it and expect it to do anything.

现在，我和大家一起写C语言代码,但我不指望写出来后就能跑起来。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

I don't expect you go to the library, however, because I think that we're moving into an age where you tend to want to be online, right?

我不指望你们去图书馆,因为我觉得我们进入了一个新时代,在这个时代里,人人都想挂在网上吧

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