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单词 raise (or lower) one's sights
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raise (or lower) one's sights

Become more (or less) ambitious; increase (or lower) one’s expectations: if it fails to reach that minimum, they can either lower their sights or take the property off the market...
  • If the coach continually voices such limited expectations then his players are unlikely to raise their sights very much higher.
  • The company lowered their sights in May to ask for an average yearly increase of 7.8 per cent over five years, including rises of more than 10 per cent in 2005-06 and 2006-07.
  • It has forced us to lower our sights, and curtail our expectations.
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