直接的黑桃攻向明手的间张通常看起来是不好的或没指望的打法。

The instant spade return into dummy's tenace wouldn't normally seem a sound or promising play.

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现在我们又得面对自鸣得意的的电子精英主义，认为传统形式的印刷装订书籍就像没指望的恐龙。

And now we have gleeful e-elitism as well, the notion that the conventional product, printed and bound, is a hopeless dinosaur.

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获胜的这匹马，本来谁也没指望它能获胜。

The winning horse was a rank outsider.

《牛津词典》

If you get asked about these readings, as you will on the exams, we're not going to be picky, and we're not expecting you to remember details, and not expecting you to understand concepts that you can't just grasp from the readings themselves.

如果到考试的时候,碰到这方面的问题,放心,我们不会太苛刻的,我们不指望你们记住具体的细节,也没想强迫你们去理解,仅从材料本身无法获得的思想

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