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I am reading _The Little Prince_ in Japanese and I am not sure about how to
translate だろうと in the following sentence:

> 大人たちにそう言われてから、今度はわかってくれる **だろうと** ウワバミの中身を描いて見ました。

I don't know how to literally translate it, even if I understand the meaning
of the sentence...
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particle-と volitional-form
だろうと how can I translate it?
This と is the quotative-と. `volition/inference + と` can be used without any
explicit following verb, and it means "thinking ...", "trying ...", "hoping
..." or such. だろう is part of the "quote."

> 今度はわかってくれるだろうと  
>  =「今度はわかってくれるだろう」と **思って**  
>  = ..., thinking/hoping (adults) will understand (the picture) this time,
> ...

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