"Some positive signals have appeared in the last weeks, including the evolution of the financial markets, improvement in business expectations and some real indicators, such as export data in Asia,pointing, all of them, to a stabilization of the economy in the second part of this year and a gradual recovering in 2010,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

I have expectations of you.

我对你们也有所期待。

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they have a lot of high expectations about what they're going to get for their money. So,

对于拿钱买什么的问题，他们有很高的期望。所以，

上东区的瑜伽老师 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Many people said the problem with general levels of happiness or unhappiness rather, the cause is people have too high expectations.

很多人说,一般的快乐或不快乐水平，是由于人们有过高的期望。

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And, we enter into a contract. You walk in here, you have certain expectations of me.

我们就定下了契约，我走进来，你对我会有所期待。

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where you don't have any sort of expectations that you have to worry about from others.

你无需担心别人对你抱有过高的期待。

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And if we have high expectations, if we see the seed of greatness in the students, that seed of greatness is more likely to flourish.

如果我们有很高的期望，如果我们在学生身上看到伟大的潜能，那么这种潜能就更可能被激发。

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What will make a difference to our levels of wellbeing is if we have right vs. wrong expectations.

能影响幸福水平的,是我们的期望是正确还是错误。

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