在高端电视台，编剧能指望获得在电影中他们得不到的一定的控制权，比如“策划人”和制作人。

In high-end television writers can aspire to a level of control, as “showrunners” and producers, that eludes them in cinema.

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石油生产国的行为不同于它们在以往石油繁荣中的所作所为。那时，它们增加了债务，指望不断高涨的石油价格能推动它们的增长。

The oil producers' behavior differs from that of previous oil booms, when they built up debt and banked on continued high oil prices to fuel their expansion.

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因为在酒变酸前，餐厅老板无法指望其他顾客去豪饮掉瓶中剩酒，因此一瓶一瓶的出售是唯一明智的做法。

Since restaurant owners cannot count on some other customers to quaff the rest of the bottle before the beverage sours, charging for the bottle is the only sensible thing to do.

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