Hope for the best

Definition

hope /hǝƱp/ n ၁။ [C,U] ~ (of/ for sth); ~ (of doing sth/ that…) ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္။ Don't raise his hopes too high or he may be very disappointed. ❍ There is still a ray/ glimmer of hope (ie a slight hope). ❍ He pinned (ie based) all his hopes on getting that job. ❍ All our hopes were dashed/ shattered by the announcement. It is our hope that you will find this offer satisfactory. ❍ She still cherished a forlorn hope of seeing him again. ❍ She has high hopes (ie is very confident) of winning. ❍ They have given up all hope of finding any more survivors of the crash. ၂။ [C usu sing ] ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္အားထားရာ။ You are my last hope—if you can't help, I'm ruined. ❍ We'll have to wait for some- one to rescue us—that's our only hope. v ~ ( for sth ) ေမွ်ာ္လင့္သည္။ ထင္သည္။ We haven't heard from him for weeks but we're still hoping for a letter. ❍ I hope to announce the winner shortly. ❍ All we can do now is wait and hope. ‘Will it rain tomorrow?’ ‘ I hope not/so. ’ ❍ We hope (that) you're well. ❏ be beyond hope [ IDM ] ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ မရိွေတာ့။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ကုန္ၿပီ။ Her condition is now beyond hope of recovery. ❏ hold out (some, not much, little, no, etc) hope (of sth/ that…) [ IDM ] ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ထားသည္၊ မထား၊ သိပ္မရိွ စသည္။ The doctors held out no hope of recovery/ that she would recover. ❏ hope against hope (that) … [ IDM ] ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ ခ်က္မရိွဘဲ ဆက္လက္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္သည္။ ❏ hoped-for adj ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားေသာ။ They weren't given the hoped-for pay rise. ❏ hope for the best [ IDM ] အေကာင္းဆံုးကိုေမွ်ာ္လင့္ သည္။ I'm just going to answer all the questions I can and hope for the best. ❏ in the hope of sth/ that … [ IDM ] ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ႏွင့္။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ၿပီး။ I called in the hope of finding her at home. ❏ not have a hope (in hell) (of doing sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္လံုးဝမရိွ။ အလားအလာ လံုးဝမရိွ။ She hasn't got a hope (in hell) of winning. ❏ not a hope; some hope! [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလားအလာ လံုးဝမရိွ။ က်ည္ေပြ႕သာအတက္ေပါက္မည္။ He might turn up with the cash. ‘Some hope!’

Examples

1. [hope (that)] : I just hope she’s pleasant to him on his birthday.
2. [hope for] : It wouldn’t be sensible to hope for immediate success.
3. The best they can hope for is to get temporary accommodation.
4. [hope and pray (that)] : We can only hope and pray that Stephen is alive.
5. [hope to do something] : The university is hoping to raise £3
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8. He hopes to sell his art to a major museum.
9. [hope (that)] : I hope you don’t mind me asking
10. but where did you buy those shoes?
11. We do hope you enjoy your stay with us.
12. That’s not my jumper you’re wearing
13. I hope.
14. [hope (that)] : I hope you’re not going to use all the milk.
15. [hope (that)] : I’m hoping that Ray’s got the key
16. otherwise we can’t get in.