We thought we had them licked.

我们以为已经轻易地把他们对付过去了。

《牛津词典》

The job took longer than we thought.

这项工作用的时间比我们预想的多。

《牛津词典》

"We thought you'd emigrated."—"No, no."

“我们还以为你已经移民了呢。”—“不，没有。”

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Since it is Christmas today we thought we would take time to listen to some of the new offerings.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

Everyone has figured that out in terms of technology and product, but we thought we could do a better job.

在技术和产品方面,大家都已经想透了，但我坚持我们能做得更好。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

Originally, we thought it's information needs only; we just need to find a web page that contains the query word, but it's actually not.

起初，我们以为人们只是需要信息而已;,只需找到一个带有关键字的网页即可，但实际上并不是。

斯坦福公开课 - 百度CEO李彦宏演讲：全球最大搜索引擎的发展课程节选

Perhaps, Wolf suggests, the two tails of the alleged bell curve are fatter than we thought.

FORBES: Christmas, Kurtosis, Fat Tails, Black Swans And Risk Management, Pt. 2

We thought they were wrong to oppose the economic stimulus after the banking crash.

ECONOMIST: The British election

We thought this might happen, and laid out the issue in this December Forbes story.

FORBES: Vermonters Vote To Kill Entergy Nuke