I found, as Hacker observed years before, that most wives want their husbands to be, first and foremost, conversational partners, but few husbands share this expectation of their wives.
我发现，正如Hacker多年前观察到的那样，大多数妻子首先希望丈夫成为交谈伙伴，但很少有丈夫对妻子抱有同样的期望。
their expectation of better financial status.
他们对更好经济状况的期望。
This increase is sometimes called tipflation-the expectation of ever-higher tip amounts.
这种增长有时被称为‘小费膨胀’（tipflation），即对越来越高小费金额的预期。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。