I hope that the people will understand that I act not in anger, but in expectation of a greater good."

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I wanted to call attention to a few places in the text in which it is a question of expectation and of the way in which this expectation can be violated.

作品中有一些地方，我想引起大家的注意,那是一个关于，期望,和造成期望可违背的方式，的问题。

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All right. Now this is a wonderful example of the tension between having expectations, the expectation that someone will help Tony, and being in a state of suspense, not knowing who it will be.

好的，这是个很好的例子，来说明二者之间的张力,一个是有期望，期望有人会帮助托尼，另一个是处于一种悬念状态，不知道会是谁来帮托尼。

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Followed by a long history of inferior schools and segregation, and also expectation, continued disparity in terms of school and education, which comes to another question.

经过了长时间的,低等教育和种族隔离，以及学校及教育上,长期的歧视和不平等，这就牵扯到了另一个问题。

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They love to kind of luxuriate in the opportunity to show off their voice on a leading tone, build up expectation, make you wait even more for that tonic.

他们总是喜欢借机,在导音部分卖弄下自己的歌喉,以增加听众的期望,让大家更渴望听到主音

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I think it's wonderful because it "pulls up" just like Gadamer being "pulled up short," and there is, it seems to me, there's another crisis of expectation in this line in that especially as a toddler I need to negotiate that expression idiomatically.

我认为这非常好，因为“停下来“就像葛达玛的,“突然停下“一样，而依我看来，这里有另一个,期望危机，在这句话中，因为，特别是作为一个小孩,我需要用习惯性的表达法。

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The moral is that reciprocity is friendship and so good, all to the good, but as I say there's a moment of suspense in the expectation at the point in the text when we expect a moral but we don't know what the moral is going to be.

寓意是，相互关爱就是友谊，它如此美好，对双方都有好处，但正如我所说，也有那么一刻，期望面临悬念,在当我们期待一个寓意,却不知道那个寓意将是什么的时候。

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