pious hope / wish

pious hope / wish something that you want to be true or to happen, but that is very unlikely不大可能实现的希望/愿望:•All these agreements and ideas remain little more than pious hopes in the present climate.所有这些协议和想法在目前的条件下都是不太可能实现的。—piously adv.

• intermarryings
• priss
• infralapsarian
• Stu
• Church parade
• saturation spectroscopy
• discomfortingly
• shelf facies
• local circuit
• hom
• hold of the right end of the stick
• speak（或think）ill of
• autopia
• to wit
• gunshots
• Finlander
• extralinguistic
• radial symmetry
• steamer trunks
• lower-cased
• bel canto
• cageful
• horizontal scanning
• Michel parameter
• chemist
• jet-lagged
• for laughs
• undisposed
• press on (或 upon)
• airworthier
• edge city
• judgmatic
• floccules
• -length
• gomers
• credit squeezing
• Jimenez, Juan Ramón
• explained
• three-peats
• extortion
• heteropteras
• Haggadic
• beyond / without remedy
• urinalyses
• wall outlet
• old-growth
• skosh
• cross swords (with sb)
• angiopressure
• off-boards
• it does no harm (for sb) to do sth
• UROLOGICALS
• light-colored
• linkboys
• respectfully
• task closure
• partial molal quantity
• sublacustrine
• put to bed
• songlets
• reluctances
• megadyne
• explicably
• indentured servants
• environmental
• one-upman
• teak
• genae
• get down
• beyond（或without）compare
• crystalline field
• pressure cable
• Reaganomics
• phased array
• nasopharynges
• ischialgia
• jump in
• podocarpus
• incorruptibilities
• Alice Springs
• know better
• CEO
• phosis
• brancard
• gargoylism
• goat antelopes
• osteogenesis imperfecta
• kaffir
• in aid of sth/sb
• waiwodes
• swamp coolers
• anoxics
• on tap
• main decks
• have a feel for
• genearchs
• cross marriage
• galatine
• reef flat
• trappy