| 词组 | hope |
| 释义 | hope 1. Hope, when used with a preposition, is usually followed by of or, a little less frequently, by for: • ... America was the hope of liberty —Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865, 1936 • ... the next year low water defeated hopes of grand-scale river navigation —American Guide Series: Minnesota, 1938 • ... the ability of the present Soviet leaders to fulfil their hopes of efficiency —Times Literary Supp., 9 Apr. 1970 • ... continuation of the War threw a dark cloud over his hope for professional employment —Harry R. Warfel, Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America, 1936 • ... it was sufficiently promising to arouse hopes for his future —Times Literary Supp., 15 Sept. 1966 • ... he took his manuscript back from a large New York firm that had low hopes for it —Judith Appelbaum, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 11 May 1983 Very occasionally hope is used with in, on, over or to plus the infinitive: • He had previously put his hopes in Gambetta — Times Literary Supp., 12 June 1969 • ... she does not place her hopes on books ... smuggled out of Russia —Times Literary Supp., 18 May 1967 • ... a faint stirring of hope over the possibilities of a Korean truce —Current History, July 1952 • ... was their only hope to keep North Carolina from voting so heavily for Wallace —Robert Sherrill, Saturday Rev., 17 June 1972 Hope may also be followed by a clause introduced by that: • ... expressed his hope that the young artist would not abandon photography —Current Biography, December 1964 • ... expressed his hopes that such programs could reverse "the worst tendency in ... education ..." — Current Biography, January 1966 2. Hope is used idiomatically in all the following phrases: in the hope(s) of, in hope(s) of, in the hope(s) that, and in hope(s) that. • In the hope of bringing about a peaceful settlement —Senator Mike Mansfield, in A Center Occasional • Paper, June 1968 • They put to sea ... in the hopes of drifting across the Pacific —Geoffrey Murray, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 1980 • ... do not invert the normal order of words in hopes of sounding more genteel —Barzun 1985 • ... doping out basketball scores in hope of one day winning a pool —Evan Hunter, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 13 Nov. 1983 • ... in the hope that the issue could be resolved — Bernard Gwertzman, N. Y. Times Mag., 4 May 1980 • We're lumping them all together here in the hopes that somewhere in the pile you will come across just what you need —New Yorker, 17 Dec. 1950 • In hopes that something good might be brought out of the ruins, he began to pick up —John Fischer, Harper's, December 1969 At one time an infinitive may have followed in hopes, but this construction seems not to occur in contemporary writing: • ... to see the End of it, and in Hopes to make something of it at last —Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, 1722 Also occurring in idiomatic use are the phrases with the hope(s) of and with the hope that. The former occurs with either the singular or plural of hope, although the singular occurs more often. The latter is attested in our evidence only in the singular: • ... with the hope of establishing a government that was both anti-Communist and anti-Fascist —Current Biography, June 1964 • ... and with the hopes of having it repaid them with interest, whenever they have occasion to return the visit —Thomas Gray, letter, 9 Oct. 1740 • ... to ascertain student views with the hope that they might understand —Donald McDonald, Center Mag., July-August 1970 With the hope of has some slight variations, such as with little hope of, with any hope of, and with its hope of. |
| 随便看 |
英语用法大全包含2888条英语用法指南，基本涵盖了全部常用英文词汇及语法点的翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。