expectation

• That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit .
  好书开卷引人入胜，终卷使人获益。
• His smooth, speculative face is composed to benevolent expectation .
  他那张光滑而沉思的脸露出助人为乐的慈祥神色。
• Another factor that affects financing is the expectations for repayment .
  影响筹措资金的另一个因素是对偿还的指望。
• When he set out for bath again, there was a general expectation .
  当他又出发到巴斯去的时候，有这样一种一般的揣测。
• In the autumn of 1943 it turned out that our expectations had been premature .
  1943年秋天，情况表明我们的期望过急了。
• If expectations are rigidly inelastic, we get the case of given expectations .
  如果结果是完全无弹性的，就是预期的情况。
• The result of prof. nordland's experiment didn't come up to our expectations .
  诺德兰教授的实验结果与我们的期望不相符合。
• The expectation that you are always away from home prevents me from writing to you .
  我认为你经常不在家，所以没有写信给你。
• Don't be too eager in pursuing the person lest you create too high expectations .
  不要过于急切追求此人，免得你对他期望过多。