Most children have such a high ideal of their parents, unless the parents themselves have been unsatisfactory, that it can hardly hope to stand up to a realistic evaluation.

大多数孩子估价过高，除非自身不能令人满意，以致这种估价很难指望经受住现实的考验。

So just don't expect me to be all “Dear Diary” this and “Dear Diary” that.

所以啊，你也别指望我会“亲爱的日记”来“亲爱的日记”去了。

All I have to look forward to is the occasional invitation to a fancy party.

我所指望的就是 偶尔接到时髦派的邀请函。

The Office of Special Counsel is my only recourse.

特别检察官办公室是我唯一的指望了。

" Molly...am I right in thinking that I can count on you and Arthur? "

“莫丽......如果我没有弄错的话，我是可以指望你亚瑟的吧？”

I knew I had no one to love me and nothing to look forward to.

我知道没有人爱我，没什么可指望的。

We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

我们决不可能指望一个生龙活虎的青年会始终小心周到。我们往往会因为我们自己的虚荣心，而给弄迷了心窍。

We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does'.

我们决不可能指望一个生龙活虎的青年会始终小心周到。我们往往会因为我们自己的虚荣心，而给弄迷了心窍。女人们往往会把爱情这种西想得太不切合实际。"

What's more, one can hardly expect that the dominant civilizations that have nuclear technology today will continue to exist for even thousands of years.

更何况，我们很难指望如今的核技术会延续甚至数千年。

The mind will return to its usual state soon enough; it just cannot hope to do so while supported by a flagging body that's done three hours of energetic cartwheels or ball games with the neighbour's cocker spaniel.

孩子的大脑很快就会回到正常的状态，你不能指望大脑靠微弱的身体来支撑。因为孩子的大脑已经邻居的可卡犬进行了三个小时费力的侧手翻或球类游戏。

When you're learning pronunciation, you can't rely on it to give you everything.

当你学习发音的时候，你不能指望它教你所有的西。

My dad, whose upbringing was very strict, expects me to live by his old rules.

我那在严格管教之下长大的老爸指望我也按照他的老规矩生活。

And what am I to do on the occasion? It seems an hopeless business.

“这种事叫我有什么办法？看来是件没有指望的事。”

And so that's why we're looking to you.

这就是我们指望你的原因。

Don't rely on having your writing corrected.

不要指望别人修改你的写作内容。

Others are startups hoping for big profits.

另外也有指望靠此发财的初创公司。

Consumers can count on full bellies, courtesy of the gig firms.

消费者可以指望在零工公司的竞争红利下饱腹。

Others were counting on companies to buy back their own shares.

其他股则指望公司回购自己的股票。

He kept them straighter than anyone did, so that at each level in the darkness of the stream there would be a bait waiting exactly where he wished it to be for any fish that swam there.

他把钓索垂得比任何人更直，这样，在黑魆魆的湾流深处的几个不同的深度，都会有一个鱼饵刚好在他所指望的地方等待着在那儿游动的鱼来吃。

He'll make Heathcliff pay rent, and hope to win money from him at cards.

他会收希斯克利夫的租金，而且指望玩牌赢他的钱。