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词汇 hope-over-experience
释义

hope over experience


idiom
said in order to express the idea that someone hopes that something will work well in the future, although experience shows that it has not worked well in the past:
a/the triumph of hope over experienceHasty company mergers are often a triumph of hope over experience.
Oscar Wilde described second marriages as the triumph of hope over experience.
Despite multiple divorces and a string of failed romances, he somehow encapsulates the spirit of hope over experience.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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beyond someone's expectations
boosterish
boosterism
bright spot
fancy
hopeful
hopefully
hopefulness
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la-la land
over-optimistic
over-optimistically
pin your hopes on something/someoneidiom
pious
pipe dream
please Godidiom
positively
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