"My expectation is that when you look back on these years you will look back and see a time when we put a stop against discrimination... whether in the office or the battlefield," Obama said.

奥巴马说：“我的期望是，当你们将来回头看看这些年，你会看到我们为歧视画上了句号……不管是在办公室里还是在战场上。”

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But if there is no law to transgress, or no standard to offend against, or no expectation to violate, or no commandment to disobey, then there can be no forgiveness.

但是，如果没有违背法律，或者没有标准冒犯，或根本没有期望侵犯，或没有诫不服从，便不可能有任何宽恕。

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A conventional story would have set up Roark's "selfless devotion to his art" against Keating's "grasping, selfish careerism." Rand reverses this expectation.

传统小说会让罗克的“无私奉献给艺术”挑战基廷“自私的追名逐利”，而兰德的故事和这种期望完全相反。

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This produces a characteristic wiggle on a graph, a so-called power spectrum, which can then be matched against theoretical expectation.

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It is hard to argue against the expectation that the long-term trend in devices that use chips like those made by INTC is on a strong upward trend.

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To the surprise of many, and against the expectation of a lot of commentators, the Supreme Court had ruled that the Affordable Care Act - "Obamacare" to its detractors - was constitutional.

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