- 1期望中的、盼望的。放在名詞前。
Hoped-for is a describing word you put in front of a noun. It means you want that thing to happen, and you also think it might really happen — not a wild dream, and not a sure thing either. A hoped-for win is the win you are waiting for and believe could come. Newspapers, teachers, and careful speakers use it a lot: the hoped-for recovery, the hoped-for baby, the hoped-for change in the weather. It feels quietly hopeful, not loud, and a little formal. You almost never put it after the verb. People do not say the result was hoped-for. They say the result we had hoped for, with the words split, or they keep hoped-for only as a label before the noun. If nobody ever thought the thing was likely, hoped-for is the wrong coat to put on it.
hoped-for 是形容詞，放在名詞前面，意思是你想要某件事發生，同時也覺得它真的有可能發生。它不是天馬行空的夢，也不是穩拿的事。例如「A hoped-for win」，指的就是你在等、又相信會來的那場勝利。報紙、老師和說話仔細的人常用它，像「the hoped-for recovery」，指期待中的康復。
這個字的語氣含蓄、帶著希望，也有一點正式。它幾乎不放在動詞後面，不會說結果是 hoped-for，而是說「the result we had hoped for」，把字拆開；或者只把它當成名詞前的形容詞來用。如果從來沒有人覺得事情可能發生，那就不適合用 hoped-for。
組成hoped (the past form of hope, to want something to happen) + for. The hyphen holds the two pieces together as one describing word.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- hoped for
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