| 单词 | in hopes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin hopes c. In plural; often in singular sense, esp. in in hopes. Const. as in sense 1b. ΚΠ 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 523 We will borrow of them to pay your hopes, by this long introduction suspended. 1659 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xviii. 215 They continued still upon their guard in hopes of better times. 1661 A. Marvell Let. 12 Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 17 God be praised, there is all good hopes of her recovery. 1702 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 94 Hearing he was past hopes, I went to visit him the day before he departed. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 515 I was in hopes you would have shown us our own nation. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 662 Great hopes were entertained at Whitehall that Cornish would appear to have been concerned: but these hopes were disappointed. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 34 His hopes to see his own..Not yet had perish'd. < as lemmas |
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