I had been hoping to get a promotion for a while.

我一直希望能得到升职。

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I’d been hoping I wouldn’t have to say this a second time, but here we go again: WebOS is reaching a critical failure point and I doubt the technology will make it through the next two years.

我原本希望我不用再提它了，但是没辙。 老调重弹：WebOS正处在一个性命攸关的挫败点，我很怀疑科技能不能在接下来的两年时间内让它度过难关。

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Turkey was a NATO ally and was hoping to be admitted to the European Union, a development I had been strongly supporting for years.

土耳其是北约成员，并希望得到批准，加入欧盟，我多年来对此事一直非常支持。

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"I have been hoping that we would move into the Southern Hemisphere and especially I think many of us had hoped ... we would have a pope who would come from Latin America, " he said.

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If I'd been hoping to bump into Tom Hanks jogging on the beach, the location was much too remote, but as a retreat from civilization, it did quite nicely.

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What is, however, sadly missing from the statement is a measure I and many others have been hoping for for the past ten years: an official declaration of September 11 as a national holiday: a day of mourning and a day to remember the principles of liberty for which we stand.

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