"Were he to return, then the expectation is that he's managed to secure a consensus of sorts,at least to get the government formed and let it get on with its daily business."

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It is wrong expectation to expect that getting into a certain place, getting a raise, finding our dream partner, is responsible for our happiness.

错误的期望认为进入某间公司，获得升职，找到理想的伴侣，就能让自己更快乐。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Because now the expectation and the opportunity to build interfaith cooperation has grown and that gives me that much more to do."

因为现在对建立跨信仰合作的期望,和机会都增加了,这使我的任务更重“

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The right expectation is to believe in change from within.

正确的期望是相信内在的改变。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

How do I give up my right to do whatever is in my power to secure my person or my possessions, when I have no expectation, you might say, ? that others around me are prepared to do so as well?

我怎么能在我不期望,身边的人会这样做的时候，放弃我保护自身和财产安全，不受侵害的权利？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They told him that if earnings go up-- we try to keep a target payout ratio-- but if earnings suddenly shoot up, we're not going to increase our dividends right away because that would set too high an expectation and we don't want to have to cut it.

他们告诉他,如果收益提高,我们会努力维持既定的股利发放率,但如果收益大涨,我们不会马上提高股利,因为这样会导致过高的期望,我们也不想降低股利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Okay, so expectation with respect to P just means exactly what you expect it to mean.

好了,其实在信念P下的预期,和大家理解的预期意思是一样的

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选