单词 | anticipated |
释义 | anticipated (once / 396 pages) adj If you've ever waited hopefully for an event to happen, then you know when something is anticipated. A newscaster calling out the winning numbers of your lottery ticket might be highly anticipated. Anticipated generally came with a little bit of hope and a little bit of anxiety. If getting into college is an anticipated moment, you may feel butterflies in your stomach, even as you imagine yourself strolling across the perfectly manicured campus lawns. Anticipated can also mean that you expected something to happen and that you were therefore prepared for it. If a difficult French test is anticipated, you may have baked your teacher cookies to sweeten her up — or maybe you studied. WORD FAMILYanticipated: unanticipated+/anticipate: anticipated, anticipates, anticipating, anticipation, anticipative, anticipator, anticipatory/anticipation: anticipations/anticipative: anticipatively/anticipator: anticipators/anticipatory: anticipatorily USAGE EXAMPLESBowles would not comment on his coaching staff, although changes are anticipated there as well. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The current iteration of the Second Avenue subway is both wildly more expensive and less ambitious than anticipated. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) “Historical data shows that shifting travel patterns should be anticipated as political and economic climates settle,” he says. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) adj expected hopefully Syn awaited, hoped-for expected considered likely or probable to happen or arrive |
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