fondly imagine/believe/hope etcHOPEto believe something that is untrue, hope for something that will probably not happen etc 天真地以为/盲目地相信/痴心地希望等 Some people still fondly believe that modern science can solve all the world’s problems. 有些人仍然天真地相信现代科学能解决世界上所有的问题。
fondly imagine/believe/hope etc• The Gombe rainforest is not the sort of Eden we might fondly imagine.• Some people fondly believe that chess-playing computers work by internally trying out all possible combinations of chess moves.• Some Tories fondly imagine that privatisation will eliminate the need to subsidise the railways.
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