Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course—keeping Mother at home, postponing the operation—would have turned out better.

因为他们采取的行动结果很糟糕，他们认为相反的做法——让母亲呆在家里，推迟手术——会有更好的结果。

youdao

Of course, Republicans believe, or at least pretend to believe, that the direct job-destroying effects of their proposals would be more than offset by a rise in business confidence.

当然，共和党人相信，或者至少假装相信，他们所建议而导致的工作岗位减少将被商业信心提高所抵消。

youdao

And of course you have to believe, sometimes with little data, that you can succeed against the odds.

当然，你还得自信能够立厄运而获胜，即使有时只是根据对少数数据的预测。

youdao

"So altogether we are pleased now after eight days." "Of course we still have got eight days to go, but there is no reason to believe that those next eight days will not operate as smoothly as we have done so far."

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

Well, of course, all parties to disputes of this kind believe they are right and believe that they're listening carefully to the other side. And I do.

当然，在这样的争论中，所有当事者,都认为自己正确，认为自己认真听取,对方的观点，我也这样认为。

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I believe that and why do we need to have it as a basic premise of the course, '?" as opposed to change is illusive?"

我相信这一点，但为什么我们需要把它,作为课程的基本前提，而不说'改变是虚幻的“

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Of course, we believe that the court should have reached a different conclusion with respect to the five detainees.

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The authors would of course have us believe that an unholy alliance of government and Wall Street was the driver of the boom, but the problem with this facile assertion is that skyrocketing home prices in the decade just passed were hardly unique to the United States.

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If you believe that the professional judgement of police officers, during the course of an investigation, should be able to take its course, well you believe that even when things are tricky and sensitive.

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