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How do you say “I had hoped I’d be able to get something to translate out of this!”

Where this is a forum post and the tone is one in which I did, indeed, get something to translate out of the post (exclamation with an elative tone, I suppose). I did try a dictionary and googling but turned up nothing. It’s a quite specific question, I think …

I did think of the possibility:

Ich habe gehofft, dass ich etwas zu übersetzen aus diesem Beitrag holen können würde.

But that seems wrong to me. Or if not wrong, not very idiomatic.

Dom
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