1. hope against hope : 抱一线希望;
2. hold out hope : 对...抱希望, 有理由期待;
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天气
谈论天气
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1. 希望;期望
If you hope that something is true, or if you hope for something, you want it to be true or to happen, and you usually believe that it is possible or likely.
2. 指望;奢望
If you say that you cannot hope for something, or if you talk about the only thing that you can hope to get, you mean that you are in a bad situation, and there is very little chance of improving it.
3. (对未来的)希望,期望,指望
Hope is a feeling of desire and expectation that things will go well in the future.
4. 希望;期望;盼望
If someone wants something to happen, and considers it likely or possible, you can refer to their hopes of that thing, or to their hope that it will happen.
5. 被寄予希望的人(或事物)
If you think that the help or success of a particular person or thing will cause you to be successful or to get what you want, you can refer to them as your hope .
6. 从最好的方面想;抱乐观的希望
If you are in a difficult situation and do something and hope for the best, you hope that everything will happen in the way you want, although you know that it may not.
7. (不应)抱有很大的希望
If you tell someone not to get their hopes up, or not to build their hopes up, you are warning them that they should not become too confident of progress or success.
8. 没有一线希望;毫无机会
If you say that someone has not got a hope in hell of doing something, you are emphasizing that they will not be able to do it.
9. 很高期望;很大希望;厚望
If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
10. 存一线希望;抱着万分之一的希望
If you hope against hope that something will happen, you hope that it will happen, although it seems impossible.
11. (表示礼貌)我希望,但愿
You use 'I hope' in expressions such as 'I hope you don't mind' and 'I hope I'm not disturbing you', when you are being polite and want to make sure that you have not offended someone or disturbed them.
12. (表示警告他人不要做愚蠢或危险的事)我希望,但愿
You say 'I hope' when you want to warn someone not to do something foolish or dangerous.
13. (表示更加礼貌和委婉)我希望,我想
You add 'I hope' to what you are saying to make it sound more polite and less rude or less definite.
14. 怀着(…发生的)希望
If you do one thing in the hope of another thing happening, you do it because you think it might cause or help the other thing to happen, which is what you want.
15. (在不太可能的情况下)对…继续抱有希望,痴心妄想
If you live in hope that something will happen, you continue to hope that it will happen, although it seems unlikely, and you realize that you are being foolish.
16. 毫无希望;绝无可能
If you say 'Some hope', or 'Not a hope', you think there is no possibility that something will happen, although you may want it to happen.
1. one of the three Christian virtues
2. grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
e.g. there is little or no promise that he will recover
Synonym: promise
3. a specific instance of feeling hopeful
e.g. it revived their hope of winning the pennant
4. the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled
e.g. in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope
5. someone (or something) on which expectations are centered
e.g. he was their best hope for a victory