we lead off with a simple numerical example:should you invest to build a new office building in the hope of selling it at aprofit next year?

我们举一个最简单的数学例子：你是否应该投资修建一栋新的办公楼，然后在第二年以更高的价格出售？

i live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

我生活在和他相会的希望中，但这相会的日子还没有来到。

the courtyard is piled with bricks that villagers have been hoarding in the hope of one day building a new church.

院子里堆砌着一摞摞砖瓦，村民希望有朝一日能在此地建起一座新的教堂。

i believed in the promise of the equity markets but not in the hope of anyone to outsmart them.

我相信证券市场是有前途的，但我不指望任何人会比市场更聪明。

mr berlusconi has retreated for further talks in the hope of securing that majority.

贝卢斯科尼已经退而寻求旨在保有多数地位的进一步谈判。

scientists often study mars「s weather in the hope of better understanding our own.

科学家们经常研究火星的天气，希望可以更好地理解地球的天气。

both universities, respected in england, but not world-famous, have decided that risk is worth taking in the hope of boosting their global profile.

这两所学校在英国广受赞誉，但都不是世界名校，因为希望提高它们的全球化形象，他们决定值得冒这个险。

young designer abroad are also pouring into china in the hope of exhibiting their talent there.

国外年轻设计师也开始拥入中国，想在这个全球最有活力的消费市场上一试身手。

people today are barefoot on the fire or dancing in the hope of 「contacting」 these holy people.

现在人们赤脚在火上走过或者跳舞，希望能与这些圣人做「亲密接触」。

nigerian security forces continued to attack militant bases in the niger delta in the hope of allowing oil to be processed and exported unimpeded.

尼日利亚安全部队持续攻击在尼日尔河三角洲的激进分子基地，希望加工处理及出口石油不受阻碍。

the firm is also drilling elsewhere in the same basin in the hope of finding more oil.

该公司还在同一个盆地的其他地方鉆井，希望找到更多石油。

if vcs are only doing it in the hope of investing more later, what happens if they don」t?

如果风投只是希望在接下来投入更多的话，如果他们接下来不投的话会发生什么？

the target company, however, may turn down the offer in the hope of a higher price.

然而，目标公司可能拒绝这个出价，以期望更高的收购价。

today in the hope of a better, although they must be achieved tomorrow, hope that the seedlings can be contained under it today.

今天在美好的希望，虽然也要到明天才能实现，可希望的幼苗必须今天将它载下。

knowing that however well they govern, they cannot hang on to power, leaders focus on rewarding cronies in the hope of retaining influence after their period in office ends.

知道即使管理的很好，他们也不能保住权力的情况下，领导人着力奖赏亲信，希望在任期结束后还保持影响力。

weaker banks, and ailing clubs, pay out 80% or more of their revenues in the hope of making their way up the league table.

经营较差的银行和不怎么强的俱乐部，支付收入的80%或更多，希望在业内的排名靠前。

champion grower joe atherton has spent all year cultivating his crop of bumper vegetables in the hope of breaking world records with his giant crop.

这是农夫冠军乔·阿瑟顿的菜园，他花了一辈子在这里培育个头惊人的蔬菜，并且希望打破蔬菜个头的世界记录。

a cuckoo in a tree was crowing sorrowfully. hearing this, a caring turtledove asked about her sadness in the hope of helping her out.

一只杜鹃在树枝上发出阵阵哀啼，一只可爱的斑鸠听到了，便向它询问，希望能帮助它排忧解难。

experiments such as cdmsii measure large numbers of particle interactions in their detectors in the hope of spotting one caused by a wimp.

类似低温暗物质研究ii号的实验在他们的探测器上测量了大量的粒子作用，希望寻获一次wimp造成的影响。

could it ever be ethical to conduct research that produces sick babies in the hope of figuring out how to make healthy clones?

在希望能弄清楚如何制造健壮的克隆的情况下，从事研究却生出有病的幼崽到底合乎道德吗？

banks say their forbearance will help keep people in their homes; the worry is that they are simply postponing inevitable repossessions in the hope of avoiding debt write-offs now.

银行称，他们的忍耐将有助于让大家呆在各自的家园；担忧是，他们只是抱着避免债务核销的希望推迟召回必然的款项。

my name is li ming, a college student of peking university, and i am writing in the hope of your assistance to find a needy child for whom i may provide financial support.

我叫李明，是北京大学的学生。我给您写这封信的目的是希望可以资助一名贫困学生，请您帮我物色一名合适的人选。

a raptor is hovering above a thicket in the hope of a takeaway meal, which reminds us that dinner time is approaching.

有一头猛禽在茂密的丛林上翱翔觅食，它提醒我们，该是用晚餐的时候了。

investors who take this route pay much higher fees in the hope of better performance.

采取这种途径的投资人付出了高的多的费用并希望能获得更好的回报。

the ecb, a mere seven years old and thus still trying to prove its credibility, moved quickly in the hope of strangling inflation in its infancy, before it poses any real threat to price stability.

可见，成立至今不过七年的欧洲央行为了保住它的公信力，迅速行动，希望在鸟羽未丰的通胀威胁到物价稳定之前将它扼杀在摇篮里。

the other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of finding strength in its vitality.

另一件要避免的事，就是依恋子女，希望从他们身上的活力中获取生命的力量。