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单词 anticipate
释义
anticipate
(æntɪsɪpeɪt )
Word forms: anticipates , anticipating , anticipated
1. verb
If you anticipate an event, you realize in advance that it may happen and you are prepared for it.
At the time we couldn't have anticipated the result of our campaigning. [VERB noun]
It is anticipated that the equivalent of 192 full-time jobs will be lost. [be VERB-ed that]
I hadn't anticipated that Rob's team would advance that far. [VERB that]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: expect, predict, forecast, prepare for  
2. verb
If you anticipate a question, request, or need, you do what is necessary or required before the question, request, or need occurs.
What Jeff did was to anticipate my next question. [VERB noun]
Do you expect your partner to anticipate your needs? [VERB noun]
3. verb
If you anticipate something, you do it, think it, or say it before someone else does.
In the 50s, Rauschenberg anticipated the conceptual art movement of the 80s. [VERB noun]
Collocations:
anticipate a change
The stock has since recovered some of its losses, partly as investors anticipate a change in direction.
Times, Sunday Times
The team was a special guest as a concrete example of how you can try to anticipate the change to be competitive.
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It anticipates a change of weather already sensed: a coming chill of resignation if not despair.
Times, Sunday Times
He anticipates that change will evolve.
Times, Sunday Times
But even that might be too soon if earlier legislation has stipulated the higher level of capital required, as the markets would tend to anticipate the changes.
Times, Sunday Times
anticipate a need
The techies hope that one day your home will anticipate your need for a cuppa when you walk through the door.
Times, Sunday Times
The staff, all super-friendly, seem to anticipate your needs without being intrusive.
Times, Sunday Times
As manufacturers increasingly turn to automation, augmented reality and big data, digital dashboard screens that can interact with the driver and anticipate their needs are becoming crucial.
Times, Sunday Times
These people are serious about the hotel trade: knowing what their guests want, anticipating their needs, and meeting them as efficiently as possible (and always with a smile).
Globe and Mail
He has clearly anticipated the need to tie it to format size or enlargement, but has not given a general scheme for choosing it.
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anticipate a possibility
He had got himself into a striker's position, anticipating the possibilities open to him.
The Sun
But to the extent that one anticipates that possibility, in my case one has to reaffirm the postulates.
Christianity Today
Traders anticipated the possibility that those words would be followed by action - in the form of formal intervention in markets or even interest rate changes.
Times, Sunday Times
But he had anticipated this possibility and was able to escape using a spare set of keys.
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anticipate a problem
Anticipating a problem with loan and overdraft repayments, they contacted the bank to discuss options to cover the temporary loss of income.
Times, Sunday Times
It takes a special sort of naivety not to anticipate the problems their removal may cause, particularly on evening trains.
Times, Sunday Times
Please let me know if you anticipate any problems with this.
Times, Sunday Times
Amid the tumult of a modern football match, he can take a step back and calmly discern the threads, anticipate the problems, and decode the mysteries.
Times, Sunday Times
However, since you couldn't have anticipated the problems you're currently facing, there's no point in bemoaning any unwise decisions.
Times, Sunday Times
anticipate an increase
Three of the 17 policymakers expected that rates would need to rise this year, while two did not anticipate any increase until 2016.
Times, Sunday Times
Lawyers are anticipating an increase in disputes over unpaid invoices.
Times,Sunday Times
During the summer some analysts anticipated an increase this year, but inflation has since fallen to 1.2 per cent, driven in part by a rapid fall in oil prices.
Times, Sunday Times
Sources at all the big banks said that they were anticipating an increase.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 预期
Japanese: 予想する
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