Hopefully (Adverb)
有希望地,有前途地
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be hopeful about the future
对未来怀着无限的希望
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Definition 1: In a manner characterized by a combination of desire and expectation.
Usage 1: Constructions like "Hopefully, it won't rain" are often condemned1 because such statements contain nothing capable of hope for the adverb to modify. But it is odd that similar constructions using "frankly," "sadly" and "mercifully" are likely to pass without comment?hopefully" has for some reason been singled out for disapprobation. Although there is now general acceptance that such "sentence adverbs" may be used to indicate the speaker's frame of mind, you may wish to avoid them if your speech or writing is going to be critically scrutinized2. The noun and verb "hope" are parents to the adjective "hopeful" and its opposite "hopeless," and their associated nouns "hopefulness" and "hopelessness."
Suggested usage: Test the knee-jerk pedants3 by using "hopefully" appropriately: "Hopefully, I'll be in the casino tonight." (You wouldn't go if you weren't hopeful.) But beware that a sentence adverb can be misinterpreted if people are the subject of your sentence: "They're to be married, hopefully, in the spring." (Do you hope for a spring wedding, or is their betrothal4 to be founded on nothing more than hope?)
Etymology5【语源】: "Hope" seems to have simply sprung into existence as Old English "hopa, hopian." The suffix6 "-ful" comes from "full," a Germanic word that has undergone the usual transformation7 of [p] to [f] as it evolved from the Proto-Indo-European *pel. The PIE word spawned8 Greek polus, "much," and plethos, "many." From these we derive9 the prefix10 "poly-" which indicates an abundance, and the noun "plethora," a super-abundance. The same PIE root underlies11 Latin plenus, "full," from which we have English "plenitude" and "plenty."