| 词汇 | pious hope/wish |
| 释义 | pious hope/wishpious hope/wish WANTsomething that you want to be true or to happen, but that is very unlikely 不大可能实现的希望/愿望 All these agreements and ideas remain little more than pious hopes in the present climate. 所有这些协议和想法在目前的环境下都是不可能实现的愿望。 Examples from the Corpus pious hope/wish• But in the present climate that is a somewhat pious hope.• But these were merely pious hopes.• The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.• This may be a pious hope.• Criteria Unless there is a quantitative criterion there is no objective, only a pious hope of better times. → pious hope/wish at pious(1) |
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