| 词汇 | expectation |
| 释义 | expectation noun uk /ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌek.spekˈteɪ.ʃən/ B2[ Cusually plural ] the feeling that good things are going to happen in the future: 期盼;盼望;希望 live up to someone's expectationsThe holiday lived up to all our expectations (= was as good as we were expecting).假期过得一点也没有让我们失望。 have high expectationsI've heard she's a stellar manager so I have high expectations (= I believe she will do a good job). expectations forWhat are your expectations for this job? expectations ofI think she had unrealistic expectations of motherhood.我觉得她对做妈妈的憧憬有些不切实际。 beyond someone's expectationsWe did so well - beyond all (= better than) our expectations.我们做得非常好——远远超过了我们的预期。 [ C or U ] the feeling of expecting something to happen: 预料，预期;期待 Our expectations are that the UK will cut its interest rate.我们预计英国会降低利率。 expectation ofIs there any expectation of change at this point? They planned a protest with the expectation of being arrested. expectation of someonedoing somethingConsidering the injuries he's had there can be little expectation of him winning the race.考虑到他的伤病，他赢得这场比赛的希望不大。 against all expectations(alsocontrary to all expectations) different from what is expected: 出乎所有人的预料；意想不到的是 Contrary to all expectations, she was accepted by the academy.意想不到的是，她竟然被学院录取了。 manage expectations to try to encourage people to expect a bad result, so they will not be disappointed and may be pleasantly surprised: Anticipating heavy losses, his campaign has already started managing expectations. As they await the panel's decision, advocates on each side try to manage expectations. Hoping to manage expectations, the company is saying publicly that its only goal is to equal the last quarter's performance. She could never measure up to her mother's expectations.她可能永远都无法满足她母亲的期望。 The company's results are in line with stock market expectations.公司业绩与股票市场预期一致。 The success of our campaign has exceeded our expectations. The concert was brilliant - it lived up to all our expectations.音乐会很棒——一点儿都没有让我们失望。 Hoping and hopefulness appealingly beyond someone's expectations boosterish boosterism bright spot fancy hopeful hopefully hopefulness ill it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)idiom la-la land over-optimistic over-optimistically pin your hopes on something/someoneidiom pious pipe dream please Godidiom positively wing You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Planning, expecting and arranging Not hopeful expectation | American Dictionaryexpectation noun[ C/U ] us/ˌek·spekˈteɪ·ʃən/ the feeling or belief that something will or should happen: [ U ]Considering his grades, there is little expectation of his getting into medical school. [ Cusually pl ]Last year’s predictions fell a bit short of expectations. expectation | Business Englishexpectation noun[ C,often plural ] uk /ˌekspekˈteɪʃən/us what you believe or hope will happen in the future: Now the expectation is just 81 cents a share, according to a survey of a dozen analysts. expectation that sthThe banks help out the government in the expectation that favours will be returned over time. The company says its revenue this year will fall $500,000 short of earlier expectations. Cost pressures are growing, and public and market expectations of inflation are rising. The group said it expected results for the second half to be in line with expectations, though there may be a shortfall in the first half of the year. Examples of expectationexpectation The teachers' articulations reveal that their expectations and experiences interrelate in complex, sometimes unexpected, ways. In addition to stereotypical patterns and expectations, men and women may differ in the way they arrange ad hoc gigs with each other. Their educational levels have given them high expectations in terms of employment. Proposition 3 expresses the sense in which expectations under our calculation framework approximate full rationality when calculation costs are low. When doing this, the government uses a misspecified model, which misinterprets the role of private sector expectations. We analyze the formation of individual inflation expectations in three steps. If the public expects a negative shock, then the public's inflation expectations are below the uninformed central bank's inflation expectations. The right side shows the inflation expectations of the public depending on the announced target. The resurgence of actual and prospective disinflation in industrialized countries has resulted in new interest in the possibility of self-fulfilling deflationary expectations. Besides forming rational expectations, agents in our model experiment with various other expectations strategies that are computationally cheaper than rational expectations. One of these problems is due to the fact that economic models may exhibit multiple rational expectations solutions. In this case, fluctuations driven by the volatility of expectations appear in the neighborhood of the steady state. As tariffs decline, product cycle times decrease and expectations for high quality diffuse, companies are seeking to standardize the layout and operations of their factories. Now for my fourth and final point, the overstaffing of the presidency and what it may contribute to the gap between expectations and performance. Table 2 summarizes our theoretical expectations for the explanatory variables. See all examples of expectation These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withexpectationexpectationThese are words often used in combination with expectation. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. conditional expectation Table 5 shows the contemporaneous correlation between conditional expectation and variance of excess returns across financial-cycle phases. cultural expectation On the other hand, the culturalexpectation is that men should provide for themselves and women should be provided for. customer expectation It also leads directly to a strong and viable client-service relationship and, importantly, it indicates how customerexpectation can be managed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with expectation |
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