He was overestimating their desire for peace.

他高估了他们对和平的渴望。

He was imbued with a desire for social justice.

他满怀着寻求社会正义的愿望。

It is sad to see a man so corrupted by the desire for money and power.

看到一个人被金钱和权力欲望所腐蚀很可悲。

These days, safety regulations—not to mention the modern sports fan's desire for a good view and comfortable seat—tend to keep stadium capacities slightly lower.

如今，安全规定使体育场容量趋于下降，更不用说现代体育迷对良好视野和舒适座椅的渴望了。

The justifications change. The desire for more trees remains constant.

理由在变，但对更多树木的渴望是不变的。

They meet the natural desire for freedom, for expression, for creativity and beauty of life.

他们满足了人们对自由、表达、创造力和生活之美的本能渴望。

Everyone has a desire for success, but not everyone has the courage and determination to pursue it.

每个人都渴望成功，但是不是每个人都有勇气与决心去追求成功。

It has been suggested that these figurines were an ideal type or an expression of a desire for fertility.

人们认为这些雕像是一种理想类型，或对生育愿望的表达。

The desire for self-improvement has led many students to pursue educational opportunities beyond physical classrooms.

自我提升的渴望使很多学生追求物理课堂之外的学习机会。

What is lacking today is the conflict between adolescent's desire for autonomy and their understanding of an unsafe world.

如今所缺少的是青少年对自我管理的渴望和他们对这个不安全的世界的理解所产生的矛盾。

This appeal to the middle class convinced the elite that photographs would foster a desire for realism instead of idealism.

这种对中产阶级的吸引力使精英们相信，摄影会培养人们对现实主义而非理想主义的渴望。

Feeling bored may signal the desire for a greater sense of community and the feeling that you fit in with others around you.

感到无聊可能表明你渴望更强烈的归属感，并觉得自己能融入周围的人。

Their desire for social drama is not—or not only—a way of distracting themselves from their schoolwork or of driving adults crazy.

他们对社交戏剧的渴望不是——或者不仅仅是——一种让他们从学业中分心或者让成年人发疯的方式。

Your ad must attract attention, stimulate consumers' interest, create a desire for your product, and motivate people to take action to buy your product.

你的广告必须能吸引注意力，激发消费者的兴趣，令人产生对你产品的欲望，并激励人们采取行动来购买你的产品。

Therefore, OLEX's decision, announced yesterday, to keep Grenville open shows that at OLEX social concerns sometimes outweigh the desire for higher profits.

因此，OLEX 昨日宣布的继续运营 Grenville 的决定表明，在 OLEX，社会关注的重要性有时超过了对更高利润的渴望。

Not only can we never find the "perfect" punishment, our search for optimum penalties is complicated by our desire for fairness: to let the punishment fit the crime.

我们不仅永远找不到“完美”的惩罚，我们对最优惩罚的追寻也因我们对公平的渴望而复杂化：让惩罚与罪行相称。

Wagner found this most eloquently illustrated in the Black spiritual, where the desire for freedom in this world and the hope for salvation in the next are inextricably intertwined.

瓦格纳在《黑人精神》一书中发现了这一点，在这本书中，对这个世界自由的渴望和对下一个世界的拯救的希望是密不可分地交织在一起的。

The desire for revenge can be overpowering.

复仇的愿望会是抵挡不住的。

Desire for status can be a powerful motivator.

追逐地位的欲望可以成为强大的动力。

In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.

在当代西方世界，快速变换着的款式迎合了人们对新奇和独特性的追求。

What accounts for our increasing desire for forests?

是什么原因导致我们对森林的需求日益增长?

Her motivation for writing was a desire for women to get the right to higher education.

她写作的动机是希望女性有权接受高等教育。

Perhaps, he was secretly rather flattered by her evident desire for his elderly company.

也许，这还使他有点暗自得意，因为她显然很想让像他这样上了年纪的人陪陪自己。

President Obama has said that he had discussed his administration's desire for an orderly change to a more open government in Egypt.

奥巴马总统说他已经与他的管理班子讨论过希望埃及政府能做出有秩序的调整，变得更加开放。

"Short-termism" or the desire for quick profits, has worsened in publicly traded companies, says the Bank of England's top economist, Andrew Haldane.

英国央行首席经济学家安德鲁·霍尔丹表示，“短期主义”或快速获利的欲望在上市公司中已经加剧了。

Perhaps this is what photos are for: to remind us that we all appreciate beauty, that we all share a common desire for pleasure, for connection, for something that is greater than us.

也许这就是照片的作用：提醒我们都欣赏美丽的事物，提醒我们都想要得到快乐，想要与人联系，想变得更加优秀。

And if so, how can you give up your desire for those things?

如果是这样，你又怎么能放弃对这些东西的渴望呢？