专业词汇|Hopefully-有期望地

有期望地,有前途地

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be hopeful about the future
对将来怀着无限的期望
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Definition 1: In a manner characterized by a combination of desire and expectation.

Usage 1: Constructions like Hopefully, it won't rain are often condemned^{1 because such statements contain nothing capable of hope for the adverb to modify. But it is odd that similar constructions using frankly, sadly and mercifully are likely to pass without comment?hopefully has for some reason been singled out for disapprobation. Although there is now general acceptance that such sentence adverbs may be used to indicate the speaker's frame of mind, you may wish to avoid them if your speech or writing is going to be critically scrutinized2. The noun and verb hope are parents to the adjective hopeful and its opposite hopeless, and their associated nouns hopefulness and hopelessness.}

Suggested usage: Test the knee-jerk pedants^{3 by using hopefully appropriately: Hopefully, I'll be in the casino tonight. But beware that a sentence adverb can be misinterpreted if people are the subject of your sentence: They're to be married, hopefully, in the spring.}

Etymology^{5: Hope seems to have simply sprung into existence as Old English hopa, hopian. The suffix6 -ful comes from full, a Germanic word that has undergone the usual transformation7 of [p] to [f] as it evolved from the Proto-Indo-European *pel. The PIE word spawned8 Greek polus, much, and plethos, many. From these we derive9 the prefix10 poly- which indicates an abundance, and the noun plethora, a super-abundance. The same PIE root underlies11 Latin plenus, full, from which we have English plenitude and plenty.}