Betydningen av hope på engelsk

hope

verb [ I or T ]

/həʊp/ us

/hoʊp/

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to want something to happen or to be true, and usually have a good reason to think that it might:

hope for I'm hoping for an interview next week.

She's hoping (that) she won't be away too long.

I hope (that) she'll win.

hope and pray We have to hope and pray (that) the operation will go well.

[ + to infinitive ] They hope to visit us next year.

It's good news, I hope.

hope so "Is it free entry?" "I hope so - I don't have any money with me."

hope not "Will you be at the meeting tomorrow?" "I hope not."

Sammenlign

wish verb (HOPE)

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I hope they get the punishment they deserve.
What do you hope to gain from the course?
I was hoping to leave work early today.
She is hoping to get a loan from her bank to help her out of her financial predicament.
Maggie sends her love and hopes you'll feel better soon.

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Expect, hope or wait?

We use expect to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect in the following main patterns: …

Expect

We use expect to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect in the following main patterns: …

Hope

We use hope when we do not know whether something will happen or not but we want it to happen. We use hope in the following patterns: …

Wait

We use wait when we refer to letting time pass because we are expecting that something is going to happen. We use wait in the following main patterns: …

Expect, hope or wait: typical errors

We don’t use wait or wait for to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect: …

Hope

Hope is a verb and a noun. …

Hope as a verb

After hope, we often use present verb forms even when there is reference to the future: …

Hope as a noun

We can use hope as a countable noun: …

Idiomer

hope against hope

hope for the best

hope

noun [ C or U ]

/həʊp/ us

/hoʊp/

something good that you want to happen in the future, or a confident feeling about what will happen in the future:

hope for What are your hopes and dreams for the future?

hope of Is there any hope of getting financial support for the project?

Young people are growing up in our cities without any hope of finding a job.

[ + that ] Is there any hope that they will be home in time?

dash someone's hopes His reply dashed (= destroyed) our hopes.

pin your hopes on someone/something They have pinned (all) their hopes on (= they are depending for success on) their new player.

live in hope She's very ill, but we live in hope (= we think she might be cured).

beyond hope The situation is now beyond hope (= unlikely to produce the desired result).

give up hope We never gave up hope (= stopped hoping) that she would be found alive.

glimmer of hope The letter offered us a glimmer of (= a little) hope.

ray of hope The deal offers a small ray of (= a little) hope to troubled lenders.

in the hope that I didn't phone until four o'clock, in the hope that you'd be finished.

hold out hope Many people held out hope (= continued to hope) for better times.

not hold out much hope of I don't hold out much hope of getting (= I don't expect to be able to get) a ticket.

hold onto a hope We're all trying to hold onto the hope that she'll be all right.

Synonymer

aim  (INTENTION)
ambition 
aspiration (HOPE)
dream  (HOPE)
goal (AIM)
intent  formal or specialized
intention
object  (PURPOSE)
objective 
target  (AIM)

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something you want to do or achieve

aimOur aim in protesting is to raise awareness of the unfairness of the system.
goalMy goal in life has always been to be financially independent.
objectiveOne of my objectives for this year is to increase sales.
targetIf you meet your sales targets you will receive a generous bonus.
dreamWhen I was growing up my dream was to perform in front of millions of people.
hopeMy hope is that there will be some kind of positive outcome to this process.

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We still haven't given up hope of finding her alive.
The latest violence has destroyed any remaining hopes for an early peace agreement.
The hope is that this area will develop into a vibrant commercial centre.
The doctors gave him more powerful drugs in the hope that he might recover.
There is still some hope that the economic blockade will work and make military intervention unnecessary.

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Hoping and hopefulness

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Grammatikk

Hope

Hope is a verb and a noun. …

Hope as a verb

After hope, we often use present verb forms even when there is reference to the future: …

Hope as a noun

We can use hope as a countable noun: …

Idiomer

hope over experience

not have a hope in hell

(Definisjon av hope fra Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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hope

noun [ C/U ]

/hoʊp/

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the feeling that something desired can be had or will happen:

[ U ] We never entirely gave up hope.

[ U ] This research offers hope of developing better ways to treat cancer.

[ C ] He had hopes of being chosen for the leading part in the play.

hope

verb

/hoʊp/

to express the feeling or wish that something desired will happen:

[ I ] I’m hoping the company gives us a bonus this year.

[ + to infinitive ] We hope to see you soon.

[ + (that) clause ] I hope (that) his plane won’t be delayed.

(Definisjon av hope fra Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Eksempler på hope

hope

I hope they're not all going to be driving pick-ups like yours.

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However, one might hope that the chapter prefaces or book structure would highlight key points of debate so that instructors and students could assess them.

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Internally caudillo warfare had set back any hopes of a truly national identity.

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First, our willingness to discount unlikely strategies varies with the desirability of the goal we hope to achieve.

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Unfortunately, one cannot hope to add an extensional conversion rule on inductive types, which would entail the computability of all isomorphisms of inductive types.

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Archaeologists study the former in the hope of understanding the latter.

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The hope then is that repairs and so on include useful information about the utterance as a whole.

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As teachers perhaps that is one of the things we can hope for.

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Perhaps it was too much to hope that it could have been otherwise.

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Yet these are precisely the kinds of reactions that promote abdication of control and hope on the part of those suffering from mental disorder.

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The prospect of eight levels of attainment in the revised curriculum of 2000 held out little hope for a more reasonable approach.

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The physicians agreed totally, and simply claimed that the intervention sought by the parents had no reasonable hope of promoting that end.

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Age-related differences in hope scores were also found in this study.

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I hope that this will help to explain the many and various definitions of the concept of successful ageing.

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But each introduces important ideas, and makes a real contribution to debates that one hopes will continue.

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beacon of hope

New-style education appeared as a seemingly universal beacon of hope, particularly when it was meant to convey a reworked but "traditionally" inspired notion of morality.

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best hope

Transplantation tolerance appears to offer the best hope of achieving this degree of effectiveness and specificity.

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false hope

Although that proved to be a false hope, it was not a complete fantasy.

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