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wishful ['wiʃful]

a. 愿望的, 渴望的, 一厢情愿的

wishful

[ adj ]

having or expressing desire for something

<adj.all>

desirous of high office

desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem

desiring or striving for recognition or advancement

<adj.all>

Wishful \Wish"ful\, a. [Cf. {Wistful}.]
1. Having desire, or ardent desire; longing.

2. Showing desire; as, wishful eyes.

From Scotland am I stolen, even of pure love
To greet mine own land with my wishful sight.
--Shak.

3. Desirable; exciting wishes. [R.] --Chapman.
※ -- {Wish"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Wish"ful*ness},
n.

But many health officials dismiss such arguments as wishful thinking.
It will be difficult; but we have begun to work on the south.' This may seem wishful thinking.
Several analysts said Wednesday's sharp decline in oil prices had been caused by some wishful thinking among traders who thought diplomacy might solve the oil crisis that began with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2.
But this claim, which mollified many new recruits and appeared to back Mr. Myerson's revenue projections, turned out to be more wishful thinking than fact.
Northerners are friendly, open, imaginative, and sometimes wishful.
In what some analysts assert may be wishful thinking, Atlanta-based Delta said it doesn't expect to have to enter a bidding war for Pan Am assets.
That, however, is wishful thinking, not policy.
Asking Congress to solve a problem is always dangerous and may be wishful thinking, but here there may be no alternative.
Unfortunately, the happy ending is wishful thinking.
Instead, there seems to be just more of the wishful thinking that led many in the Philippines and abroad to believe that the ousting of Ferdinand Marcos in itself would induce the insurgents to give up the struggle.
But at this point, that may just be wishful thinking.
This acknowledges that published schedules are nothing but wishful thinking, and travelers are not interested in the airline's real on-time performance.
But if that should just happen to be wishful thinking, the Germans, and in some sense the West as well, will get soaked.
Middle America's intuition that everything would be all right may have been more than just wishful thinking.
I just hope it does not happen here.' That may be wishful thinking.
Given the neutralist philosophy of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, it is tempting to dismiss the remark as just the wishful thinking of a State Department philhellene.
On the contrary, it suggests that the market is indulging in the wishful thinking always found at bull market climaxes - reading its picture of reality from its own price level.
If we are to survive, never mind prosper, it is something we must do. Pretending that the Japanese are becoming more like us is cultural wishful thinking that only adds to more misunderstanding.
Their calibre and number should ensure that their views carry significant weight in all decisions and they should be selected formally by the board. Admirable sentiments, no doubt, but, in the absence of strict regulations, mere wishful thinking.
The rest is wishful thinking, nervous tics as we conjure up fearful pictures of rootless young thugs bearing down on us.
President Reagan on Friday charged Congress with caving in to organized labor with its trade bill but supporters of the measure said it was his "wishful thinking" that a veto would win him a version he prefers.
Yet it is wishful thinking to believe that the press will draw back. Moreover, royal watchers argue that they are merely reflecting a popular mood.
"We have to build strong military forces based on sound planning and tough management, not wishful thinking and blank checks," Dukakis sad.
J. Steven Bergerson, a lawyer for Waste Management, called the market action in ChemLawn stock "wishful thinking."
"I think that's wishful thinking," says Wolfgang Roth, the economic spokesman for the Social Democratic Party in the Bundestag.
Indeed, Mr. Sheinberg may be engaged in wishful thinking, given his desire to get the best possible price for his pictures.
Nor was it my contention that such ideas "would prevail in a future Russian national movement," but that it was wishful thinking to assume that Dostoyevsky's emphasis on tolerance and pluralism would.
But the study concludes that this second wave of reform remains wishful thinking in most states.
Mr. Samuel's assessment here reflects the wishful thinking that seems to infuse the rest of his article.
"It sounds like wishful thinking on the part of the anti-smoking community," said Tobacco Institute spokeswoman Brennan Dawson. "I think that each state is going to be fought very much on a case-by-case basis.

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