英语里怎么表达“祈祷”、“希望某事有好的结果”？我们来看看。

1. keep your fingers crossed: use this to say that you hope that something will happen the way you want, when you cannot do anything to affect what happens

例：

"Have you had your test results yet?'' "No. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed.'' （-考试结果出来了吗？ -没有，我一直在祈祷有个好成绩。）

Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that this idea of yours works. （祈祷你的法子管用吧。）

We're keeping our fingers crossed that she's going to be OK. （我们希望她会好起来。）

2. hopefully: say this when you hope something will happen

备注：''hopefully''常用于口语中。

例;

He's been resting today, so hopefully he'll be feeling better tomorrow. （他今天休息，希望他明天会好点儿。）

Hopefully we can find a way of solving this problem. （希望我们可以找到解决问题的办法。）

Hopefully, I'll be back home by ten o'clock. （希望我10点前能到家。）

By then the problem will hopefully have been solved. （希望那会儿已经解决了这个问题。）

3. with any luck : use this if somebody is lucky, if what they want to happen does happen

备注：''with any luck''常用于口语中，或者作''with a little luck'', ''with a bit of luck''。

例：

With any luck, we'll have this finished by the end of the day. （我们今天之内应该可以做完。）

With a little luck, Kate will forget all about the party. （凯特可能会忘记派对上发生的事。）

With a bit of luck, you might get a flight tomorrow. （你可能可以坐上明天的班机。）

4. let's hope: say this when you hope that something will happen, especially because it will be very unpleasant if it does not

备注：''let's hope''常用于口语中。

例：

Let's hope we can find a parking space. （但愿我们能找到停车位。）

The whole thing has been nothing but heartache and worry. Let's hope nothing like it ever happens again. （这件事带来的只有心痛和担忧。希望这样的事再也不会发生。）

5. if all goes well: say this when you hope something will be successful, but you know that success depends on everything happening in the right way

备注：''if all goes well''常用于口语中。

例：

The tunnel should be finished by 2010 if all goes well. （一切顺利的话，隧道将于2010年竣工。）

6. hope for the best: to hope that a situation will end well, when it is possible that something might go wrong

例：

He never uses a recipe. He just throws all kinds of food into a pan and hopes for the best. （他从来没照食谱煮过东西，于是就胡乱把各种食材都丢进锅里，祈祷会有个好结果。）

7. in the hope that...: if you do something in the hope that it will have a good result, you do it because you hope it will make something good happen

备注：''in the hope that...''常用于英式英语中，美式英语中常作''in hopes that...''。

例：

He showed me a photo of his wife, in the hope that I might have seen her. （他给我看了他老婆的照片，希望我可能曾见过她。）

8. pin your hopes on: to hope that one particular thing will happen, because your happiness or all your other plans depend on this

例：

Sue is pinning all her hopes on getting this job. （苏非常希望能得到这份工作。）

''I do hope she remembers.''  ''Don't pin your hopes on it'', warned David. （-我真的希望她还记得。 -戴维说：“别指望了。”）