| 单词 | hopeful |
| 释义 | hopeful (hoʊpfʊl ) Word forms: hopefuls 1. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE, oft ADJECTIVE that] B1+ If you are hopeful, you are fairly confident that something that you want to happen will happen. I am hopeful this misunderstanding will be rectified very quickly. Surgeons were hopeful of saving the sight in Sara's left eye. Synonyms: optimistic, confident, assured, looking forward to hopefully adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2 'Am I welcome?' He smiled hopefully, leaning on the door. Synonyms: optimistically, confidently, expectantly, with anticipation 2. adjective B2 If something such as a sign or event is hopeful, it makes you feel that what you want to happen will happen. The result of the election is yet another hopeful sign that peace could come to the Middle East. ...hopeful forecasts that the economy will improve. Synonyms: promising, encouraging, bright, reassuring 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B2 A hopeful action is one that you do in the hope that you will get what you want to get. We've chartered the plane in the hopeful anticipation that the government will allow them to leave. 4. countable noun If you refer to someone as a hopeful, you mean that they are hoping and trying to achieve success in a particular career, election, or competition. On the show, young hopefuls are given the opportunity to work in different aspects of the fashion world. Collocations: hopeful expectation The oppressed looked up, and their faces were filled with hopeful expectation. Christianity Today His name has become synonymous with someone who lives in hopeful expectation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You can't please some people: the results missed the markets' hopeful expectations and the share price backtracked 8 per cent. Times, Sunday Times The high idealism of the war years still reigned, and mission work seemed to fit clearly with hopeful expectations for international democracy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Breathtakingly powerful, but with a hopeful message - don't miss it. The Sun But the report had a hopeful message for the party too. Times, Sunday Times The novel's hopeful message about the healing power of friendship ensures the quartet ends on a feelgood note. Times,Sunday Times The hopeful message was that it was 'not too late to make a difference, but only if we start now at every level from local to global', he added. Times, Sunday Times Days later came the cruellest possible news: owing to a ciphering error, the hopeful message had omitted the word 'not'. Times, Sunday Times The leading article struck a hopeful note in an increasingly desperate situation. Times, Sunday Times His memoir ends on a hopeful note in this regard. Globe and Mail He finished his review on a hopeful note, eyeing the still undeveloped spaces available in the civic centre building for further expansion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His realization ends the book on a somewhat hopeful note; perhaps the old cycle of exploitation and willful ignorance will not last forever after all. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Visitors are invited to suspend hopeful notes from its branches throughout the summer months. Smithsonian Mag I want to offer you a different, more hopeful vision of the future. Times,Sunday Times The party had a truly hopeful vision of the future. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All religions offer hopeful visions of the future, however vividly they portray the obstacles along the path to ultimate fulfilment. The Times Literary Supplement He drove with so much passion it was difficult not to be attracted to him if you were a young hopeful. Times, Sunday Times She soon made her first stage appearance and won second prize in a competition for the most photogenic young hopeful. Times, Sunday Times They're the young hopefuls 'who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish'. The Times Literary Supplement What's more, far from being shoddy fashion ideas from young hopefuls, many are strikingly beautiful designs. Times, Sunday Times Young hopefuls fresh out of college are 'leaders of tomorrow'. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 有希望的, 有希望成功的人 Japanese: 希望が持てる, 有望な人 |
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