As the night is falling, a long queue stood at the bus stop, nervously expecting to be picked up.

随着夜幕降临，公交站前排着很长的队伍，人们都在焦急地等待乘公交车。

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Most people believe that fiscal consolidations are helpful in the long run. Expecting them to be painless looks like wishful thinking.

大部分人认为财政整顿从长远来看是有益的，然而希望其实施过程不会伴随着痛苦则似乎有些痴心妄想。

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I have enough patience to work at long term goals without expecting any fast results.

我有着足够的耐心来达成长期目标并且不需要期待任何快速的结果。

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Northwest, for instance, long expecting a strike, made elaborate contingency plans that were helped by the restructuring the industry had undergone.

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We had long been expecting a leadership shakeup at Research in Motion.

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Bank analysts have long been expecting some cross-border bank mergers in Europe.

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