wishful thinking

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwishful thinkingˌwishful ˈthinking noun [uncountable] HOPEwhen you believe that what you want to happen will happen, when in fact it is not possible I think she rather likes me. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking.Examples from the Corpuswishful thinking• Coping with waste will always be hard, and hypocrisy and wishful thinking will not make it easier.• Personally I see this as wishful thinking rather than practical logic.• Mere logic and abstinence from wishful thinking had enabled Milner to summarise the story of the next sixty years.• Lomas, for instance, finds his pleasure in wishful thinking about the war.

单词	wishful thinking
释义	wishful thinking From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwishful thinkingˌwishful ˈthinking noun [uncountable] HOPEwhen you believe that what you want to happen will happen, when in fact it is not possible I think she rather likes me. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking.Examples from the Corpuswishful thinking• Coping with waste will always be hard, and hypocrisy and wishful thinking will not make it easier.• Personally I see this as wishful thinking rather than practical logic.• Mere logic and abstinence from wishful thinking had enabled Milner to summarise the story of the next sixty years.• Lomas, for instance, finds his pleasure in wishful thinking about the war.
随便看	do something on an empty stomach do something on purpose do something on the run do something on your own responsibility do something once too often do something out of the goodness of your heart do something right off the bat do something the hard way do something to death do something to excess do something to size do something to the exclusion of something do something to your heart’s content do something under protest do something with impunity do something without (further) argument do something without a murmur do something ↔ out do something ↔ up do something/nothing/anything etc do sports do the business do the courtesy of doing do the decent etc thing do the dirty on