As my mother tried to teach me all those years ago, "Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and be unsurprised by everything in between."

就像母亲多年前试图教导我的那样：“做最坏的打算，往最好的方面想，对之中的一切都不要感到意外。”

youdao

Remember to always hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

记住，永远要抱最好的希望，做最坏的打算。

youdao

Always remember to hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

永远记住，要抱最好的希望，但做最坏的打算。

youdao

They hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Still quadratic, right? I'm looking for the worst case behavior, it's still quadratic, it's quadratic in the length of the list, so I'm sort of stuck with that.

还是平方，对吧,我在寻找最坏的情况，它还是平方，它是列表长度的平方，我对此有点无奈了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Plato here seems to agree with Winston Churchill that democracy is the worst regime except for all the others.

柏拉图似乎与丘吉尔意味相投,认为民主若没有相较于其它的政体,将是最糟的一种。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We all hope for the best, but we have to be prepared for the worst.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Delivers a Statement on Hurricane Irene

That means the tech giants have had plenty of time to prepare for the worst.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Instead, the region is hoping for the best - and beginning to plan for the worst.

CNN: Page 4