hope / wish / want / desire / expect

1. hope 意为“希望”， 主要用来表示主观上的愿望并对其实现抱有信心。可接不定式，for短语或that引导的从句，但不可接“宾语＋不定式”。

2. wish 意为“希望；想要；但愿是...”， 表示某种未完成或不能完成的愿望。其后接的从句要用虚拟语气，也可接不定式、复合宾语、双宾语和“for+名词结构”。

3. want 意为“想要；希望”， 一般指想要的东西是期望得到的东西，能弥补实际需要。其后跟名词、代词或不定式。

4. desire 意为“渴望；愿望”， 可作名词或动词，语气较正式、庄重，着重渴望的力量与热切，常含有强烈的意图和目的。作动词时后接名词、不定式、不定式的复合结构。

5. expect 意为“期待；期望”， 指希望或预期某事将发生，着重相信或认为有客观可能，确信某事必将发生；常用于好的事情，也可用于坏的事情，其后接名词、不定式或从句，不可接for短语。

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1·Don't expect it to improve overnight.

不要指望这事一下子就改善了。《牛津词典》

2·Don't expect others to read your mind.

不要期望别人能看出你的心思。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·We expect better of you in the future.

我们期待你将来有更好的表现。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·It would be unwise to expect too much.

期望太多是不明智的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·I expect to see you back here, pronto!

我希望你立即回到这里来！《牛津词典》

6·I expect to be consulted about major issues.

我认为重大问题必须找我商量。《牛津词典》

7·You can hardly expect her to do it for free.

你不可能指望她无偿地做这事。《牛津词典》

8·You can't honestly expect me to believe that!

你休想指望我相信那种事！《牛津词典》

9·Oh very funny ! You expect me to believe that?

哦，真滑稽！你认为我相信那个吗？《牛津词典》

10·We can't expect them to just roll over for us.

我们不能指望他们会乖乖地向我们认输。《牛津词典》

期望

1·Don't expect others to read your mind.

不要期望别人能看出你的心思。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·It would be unwise to expect too much.

期望太多是不明智的。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·I know it's asking a lot to expect them to win again.

我知道期望他们再次获胜未免要求太高了。《牛津词典》

4·We expect the market to mushroom in the next two years.

我们期望未来两年内市场会迅速发展。《牛津词典》

5·We expect to see further improvement over the coming year.

我们期望来年会有更进一步的改善。《牛津词典》

期待

1·We expect better of you in the future.

我们期待你将来有更好的表现。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·I do expect to have some time to myself in the evenings.

我真期待晚上能有点儿自己的时间。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·People expect others to be honest, which is why conmen find it so easy to hoodwink people.

人们期待他人是诚实的，所以骗子很容易行骗得逞。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Few patrons of a high-priced hotel can be led to expect anything other than luxury service.

高价旅馆的顾客几乎没有人会被引导去期待奢侈服务以外的任何东西。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·He is pale, dark, and authoritative, with the gravitas you might expect of a Nobel prize winner.

他面色苍白、皮肤呈深色、有权威性，带着你可能期待的一位诺贝尔奖得主的那种庄严。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

希望

1·Whether they say it aloud or not, most men expect their wives to be faithful.

无论他们是否说出来，大部分男人都希望他们的妻子忠贞不渝。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·How many guests who expect clean towels every day in an hotel launder their own every day at home?

旅店里希望每天有干净毛巾的客人中，有多少人每天在家洗自己的毛巾呢？《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·In return, we expect students to word hard.

相应地，我们希望学生努力学习。

4·I expect it to earn its cost in less than three years.

我希望它在3年内赚回成本。《新英汉大辞典》

5·She doesn't expect the girl to find not one but seven tiny men.

她不希望这个女孩找到不是一个而是七个小男人。

指望

1·Don't expect it to improve overnight.

不要指望这事一下子就改善了。《牛津词典》

2·You can't honestly expect me to believe that!

你休想指望我相信那种事！《牛津词典》

3·We can't expect them to just roll over for us.

我们不能指望他们会乖乖地向我们认输。《牛津词典》

4·We don't expect candidates to be paragons of virtue.

我们不指望候选人都是道德完人。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·Don't expect me to bail you out if it all goes wrong.

如果一切都搞砸了，就别指望我来解救你。《牛津词典》

预期

1·If you expect to fail, you will fail. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

你如果预期失败，就会失败。这是一种自我应验的预测。《牛津词典》

2·You can reasonably expect your goods to arrive within six to eight weeks.

你有理由预期你的货品会在6至8周内运到。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·My literary agent thinks it is not unreasonable to expect $500,000 in total.

我的文学经纪人认为预期总共50万美元并非不合情理。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·Contrary to what one would expect, this kind of shop-lifter is rarely poor.

与人们的预期相反，这类商店扒手很少是穷人。

5·In most World Cups, the home team, or the team from the host country usually plays better than most people expect.

在大多数世界杯比赛中，主队或东道国球队的表现通常比大多数人预期的要好。

认为

1·I expect to be consulted about major issues.

我认为重大问题必须找我商量。《牛津词典》

2·Oh very funny ! You expect me to believe that?

哦，真滑稽！你认为我相信那个吗？《牛津词典》

3·I expect she is no more.

我认为她已经死了。

4·Normally, you would expect that skill reduces the number of errors we make.

通常情况下，你会认为这个技能可以减少我们犯错的数量。

5·Just imagine! We have to finish reading 300 pages before Monday! How can the professor expect us to do it in such a short time?

想象一下！我们必须在星期一之前读完300页！教授怎么可以认为我们能在这么短的时间内做完呢？

预料

1·We expect to come up against a lot of opposition to the plan.

我们预料这个计划会遭到很多人的反对。《牛津词典》

2·But expect it all to change, and security to become the number one issue, when the most influential inhabitants of the Net are selling services they want to be paid for.

但是，当最具影响力的网络用户出售他们想要收费的服务时，可以预料这一切都会改变，而安全将成为首要问题。

3·I expect they'll be gritting the roads tonight.

我预料他们今晚要在路面上撒沙砾。

4·Yet if that were so, you might expect one gender to be musically more gifted than the other, and there is no evidence of that.

然而，如果事实如此，可以预料某一种性别会较另一种在音乐方面更具天赋，而并无显著的证据证实这一点。

5·Despite millions of new users, the wireless market can expect some real challenges in the near future.

尽管有上百万新用户，在不久的将来无线市场可以预料某些真正的挑战。

料到

1·With him, you should always expect the unexpected.

在他身上你应随时料到有意想不到的事情发生。《牛津词典》

2·I didn't expect unfavourable comparisons between my sons and their friends.

我没料到我的儿子们和他们的朋友们相比有相形见绌之处。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·I didn't expect them to be at daggers drawn over such a trivial thing.

我没料到他们为这一点小事竟会如此势不两立。《新英汉大辞典》

4·Experts expect to throw away some early work. They plan for plans to change.

专家料到会扔掉一些初期的作品，他们为计划的改变作了计划。

5·But few expect that in order to climb to the top of the corporate tree they may one day be required to work on another continent.

但很少有人料到，为了爬到企业的最高领导层，他们有朝一日可能需要在另一个大陆工作。

料想

1·Many women whose fathers left home unconsciously expect to be betrayed by their own mates.

许多父亲弃家出走的妇女会在无意中料想她们会被自己的配偶所背叛。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·You wouldn't expect to see many exotic supercars prowling the crowded, dusty streets of India, but it's happening more and more.

你不会料想，在印度还能看到豪华进口轿车扎堆于当地拥挤脏乱的街道，然而种现象在印度正越来越常见。

3·“The prevalence of hallucinations is probably greater than people would expect,” Jones says.

“幻想症状的广泛存在，应该比人类所能料想的严重的多，”Jones说。

4·Never have expect such a scene would be so clear in their own eyes in battle.

从来都不曾料想，这样的一幕，会如此清晰地在自己的眼前上演。

5·If, however, children grow up without hove and without feelings of self-worth, they feel unlovable and worthless and expect to be cheated, taken advantage of, and looked down upon by others.

然而，假如孩子们盛开在没有爱、没有自我价值感的氛围当中，他们感到不讨人喜欢、没有价值，料想可能被别人欺骗、利用和看不起。

(1)expect too much of对(某人)期望过高

(1)expect of对…期望（要求）

(1)expect to do期待去做；期望做某事