我申请这个职位是希望多于期待。

I applied for the post more in hope than expectation.

《牛津词典》

她希望他第二天就会回来，她入睡时，一心期待着第二天早上快点到来。

She hoped he would come back the very next day and she fell asleep looking forward to the morning.

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我知道我必须得到他们的支持才能成功，而他们也知道，美国人民对我们满怀期待，希望我们冲破华盛顿的党派壁垒。

I knew I had to have their support to succeed, and they knew the American people would hold us all accountable for breaking the partisan gridlock in Washington.

youdao

I hope you will all come to hear Redleaf on Wednesday and I look forward to having lunch with some of you.

我希望你们周三都来听莱德利夫的讲座,我们期待和几位同学共进午餐

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hopefully some of these policies that, uh, we've been waiting,

希望我们一直在期待的一些政策，

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Okay, it's interesting to hear your experiences with these and we look forward to seeing the concept sheets and your reactions to them, so we hope that was a good experience for you.

好的,很高兴听到你们的经历,我期待看到大家的观点报告及其分析,我们希望这对你们来说是一次很好的体验

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