| 单词 | expect |
| 释义 | ex·pect I. intransitive verb 1. obsolete < a dog expects till his master has done picking of the bone — Henry More > 2. < we love to expect, and when expectation is disappointed or gratified we want to be again expecting — Samuel Johnson > 3. < his wife is expecting > transitive verb 1. archaic a. < with what anxiety I expect your news of her health — P.B.Shelley > b. < expecting what should be the event thereof — Richard Knolles > c. < if any other fate expects me — Conyers Middleton > 2. < I expect that those Indians are on their way to war — Meriwether Lewis > 3. a. < she had not expected the others and there was a great scurrying about to make coffee … for them — Louis Bromfield > b. < she had spent the night expecting death in the morning, but then was told … that she was not to die till noon — Edith Sitwell > 4. a. < he can never expect … that reason will ever hold in leash the emotions — Havelock Ellis > < scurvy was to be expected in ships that had been long at sea — C.S.Forester > b. < he expected and demanded hard work of his students — M.H.Thomas > < rich men … sometimes expect a deference which they refuse to claim — J.W.Krutch > c. < England expects every man to do his duty — Horatio Nelson > < a scholar … is expected to know the latest work on his own speciality — T.H.Savory > 5. obsolete < one assertion in it … expected greater evidence — Joseph Boyse > Synonyms: < an old three-story brick, nothing like what he had expected — Lenard Kaufman > < Bainbridge's men could expect to be starved and cold and verminous, as indeed they were — C.S.Forester > < we can expect to import only a fraction of the feeding stuffs formerly obtained from abroad — Laurence Easterbrook > < a person of authority, who is awaited, expected, and now comes — Virginia Woolf > hope and hope (for) imply little certainty but suggest confidence and sometimes assurance that what one desires or longs for will happen < makes the reading of it as rewarding as anything short of real, bona fide firsthand experience can ever hope to be — H.C.Adamson > < I could not remain a moment in the place, although he considerately hoped I would stay — Effie Gray > < what I hope for and work for today is for a mess more favorable to artists than is the present one — E.M.Forster > < a boy who showed intellectual promise was encouraged to hope for a college education — H.E.Scudder > look (to) implies a freedom from doubt that expectations will be fulfilled < look to help from the family in times of uncertainty > < look to profit from an enterprise > look (for) implies less assurance and suggests an attitude of expectancy and watchfulness < look for trouble when the enemy begins to move his forces > < look for snags that will almost inevitably occur in putting any theory into practice > await suggests a being in readiness for something expected or watched for; unlike the preceding words it may have as its subject the thing awaited and as its object the person awaiting < nothing for me to do but await their return — A.J.Broadwater > < the punishment which awaits unrepented sin — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > < the fate that awaits a sovereign who would display talents and expert authority — A.M.Young > II. obsolete |
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