"Expectations" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 qī wàng zhí expectations / (math) expected value
 zhòng wàng renowned / prestigious / great hopes / expectations
 qī wàng to have expectations / to earnestly hope / expectation / hope
 chū hū due to / to stem from / to go beyond (also fig. beyond reason, expectations etc) / to go against (expectations)
 shē wàng an extravagant hope / to have excessive expectations
 bù zhēng qì to be disappointing / to fail to live up to expectations
 luò chā drop in elevation / (fig.) gap (in wages, expectations etc) / disparity
 xǐ chū wàng wài to be pleased beyond one's expectations (idiom) / overjoyed at the turn of events
 hòu wàng great hopes / great expectations
 xìng chōng chōng full of joy and expectations / animatedly
 lěng bu fáng unexpectedly / suddenly / at unawares / off guard / against expectations
 bù fù zhòng wàng to live up to expectations (idiom)
 shí yí contemporary expectations
 hèn tiě bù chéng gāng lit. disappointed that iron does not turn into steel (idiom) / fig. frustrated with sb who has failed to meet one's expectations
 zhòng wàng people's expectations
 chuī lěng fēng to blow cold / damping expectations by discouraging or realistic words
 piān to lean / to slant / oblique / prejudiced / to deviate from average / to stray from the intended line / stubbornly / contrary to expectations
 bù qī rán ér rán happen unexpectedly / turn out contrary to one's expectations
 rén qióng zhì duǎn poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition
 chū rén yì biǎo to exceed all expectations / to come as a surprise
 rén yì people's expectations
 shē pàn an extravagant hope / to have unrealistic expectations
 pàn xīng xīng pàn yuè liàng to wish for the stars and the moon / to have unreal expectations
 bù fú zhòng wàng not living up to expectations (idiom) / failing to inspire confidence among people / unpopular
 xíng hūn sham marriage, esp. a marriage between a gay man and a lesbian arranged in response to parental expectations of a conventional marriage / abbr. for 形式婚姻
 tóng qī (neologism c. 2009) wife of a gay man (the man may marry to conform with social expectations, and the woman often enters the marriage not knowing he is gay)
 yǎn gāo haughty / contemptuous / to have high expectations
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