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单词 expect
释义
expect
verb
uk
/ɪkˈspekt/us
/ɪkˈspekt/

expectverb(THINK)

B1[T]
tothinkorbelievesomething willhappen, or someone willarrive:
预料，预计；期待
We are expecting a lot ofapplicantsfor thejob.我们预计会有很多人来应聘这份工作。
[+ (that)]I expect(that)you'llfinditsomewhereinyourbedroom.我想你会在你卧室里找到它。
I expect(that)he'd haveleftanyway.我估计无论怎么说他都已经离开了。
[+ to infinitive]He didn't expecttoseeme.他没有料到会碰见我。
Thefinancialperformanceof thebusinessisfullyexpected(=almostcertain)toimprove.确信公司的财务状况会大有改观。
We werehalfexpecting you nottocome back.我们一直以为你多半不会回来了。
(only) to be expected
normaland what usuallyhappens:
在预料之中；并不意外
Allparentsofsmallchildrengettired. It's to be expected.所有带小孩的父母都会非常累，这是可以想见的。
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  • I don't expect we'll have any moretroublefrom him.
  • Gosh, I didn't expect toseeyou here!
  • I'd expected to putweighton when I gave upsmoking, but I didn't.
  • Ourdepartmentexpects to make five newappointmentsthisyearalone.
  • This isyourcaptainspeaking. We expect to belandingat London Heathrow in an hour'stime.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Planning, expecting and arranging
  • accidentally
  • accidentally on purposeidiom
  • advertent
  • advisedly
  • aim atsomething
  • bargain
  • I might have knownidiom
  • I'll/we'll cross that bridge when I/we come/get to itidiom
  • insomeone'scrosshairsidiom
  • in the pipelineidiom
  • in the worksidiom
  • pencil
  • provision
  • purposefully
  • purposely
  • put the cart before the horseidiom
  • puttheirheads togetheridiom
  • rearrange
  • settle
  • sleeve
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expectverb(DEMAND)

B2[T]
tothinkthat someone shouldbehavein aparticularway or do aparticularthing:
要求；期望
I expectpunctualityfrommystudents.我要求我的学生守时。
[+ to infinitive]Borrowers are expectedto(= should)returnbooksontime.借阅者应该按时归还图书。
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  • We expect thesepracticestoceaseforthwith.
  • Somepeopleexpectinstantgratification.
  • You shouldn't expectothersto doyourworkfor you.
  • Itannoysme that she just expects us tohelp.
  • Thegovernorsand theeducationauthorityexpect allpupilstoattendschoolassembly.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Giving orders & commands
  • all-points bulletin
  • boss
  • bossily
  • bossiness
  • bossyboots
  • call forsomeone
  • decree
  • defy
  • demand
  • dictate
  • harry
  • importunate
  • lay down the lawidiom
  • officious
  • ordain
  • prescribe
  • shovesomeonearound
  • stick
  • stick out forsomething
  • task
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expectverb(BE PREGNANT)

be expecting (a child/twins/a baby/etc.)
B2
to bepregnant:
怀孕；有孕在身
She shouldn't beliftingthoseboxesif she's expecting.如果有孕在身，她就不该搬这些箱子。
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Grammar

Expect,hopeorwait?
We use expect to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect in the following main patterns:…
Expect
We use expect to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect in the following main patterns:…
Hope
We use hope when we do not know whether something will happen or not but we want it to happen. We use hope in the following patterns:…
Wait
We use wait when we refer to letting time pass because we are expecting that something is going to happen. We use wait in the following main patterns:…
Expect, hopeorwait: typical errors
We don’t use wait or wait for to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect:…
(Definition ofexpectfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

expect| American Dictionary

expect
verb
us
/ɪkˈspekt/
tothinkorbelievethat something willhappen, or that someone willarrive:
[T]We are expecting about 100peoplefor thelecture.
[T]Hisplaneis expected tolandat about 7:30 thisevening.
[+ to infinitive]We expected toseeher here, but Iguessshedecidednot to come.
To expect is also toaskfor something tohappenbecause youthinkyou have arighttoaskfor it:
[T]Thebosswantsme toworkthisweekend– that’s expecting a lot!
is expecting
If you say that a woman is expecting, youmeanthat she ispregnant.

expectancy

noun[U]us
/ɪkˈspek·tən·si/
There was anairof expectancy as thechairmanrosetospeak.

expectantly

adverb[not gradable]us
/ɪkˈspek·tənt·li/
Shelookedup at him expectantly.
(Definition ofexpectfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexpect

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To the extent that conversations are implicitly expected or planned to co-occur with dinners, coffee breaks, or other scheduled activities, they are also temporally constrained.
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Figure 2a illustrates specifically the total expected sampling cost of those plans and clearly shows a trend of increasing cost with smaller sampling units.
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This is as might be expected physically, presumably foretelling the onset of a higher mode as predicted by the airfoil model.
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Specifically, the younger children might be expected to show greater phonetic sensitivity to the input than older children.
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Thus, even if we were measuring the correct symptoms, we couldexpectthat our purely categorical disease would be hidden within a continuous symptom distribution.
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The unsatisfactory housing of these older people can be expected to have consequences for their physical and psychological well-being.
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Shareholdersexpectreturns on investments in pharmaceutical and biotechnologic companies.
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Weexpectreturns from agriculture to be greater and fisheries returns to be less under the alternate management plans as compared with the base model.
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If the nasal vowel was represented as monosegmental, one wouldexpectit to be followed most often by the palatal approximant.
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The constant represents the expected project yield in capital (per unit invested), net of monitoring costs.
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Weexpectthese committees will not exhibit a strong tendency to fall in the majority party's target area on its side of the chamber median.
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Weexpectthe opportunity cost hypothesis to be most relevant for members of the traditional conservative parties, who have stronger ties to the business community.
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Clearly, for values of around 1, this cannot be expected because past inflation has almost no predictive power.
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Therefore, the effective size of the receptive field is expected to differ for hyperpolarizing and depolarizing photoresponses.
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On the forum of land distribution, we shouldexpectthat the founding of the village took place some time between 1750 and 1775.
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