| 词汇 | expecting |
| 释义 | expecting present participle ofexpect expect verb uk /ɪkˈspekt/ us /ɪkˈspekt/ expectverb (THINK)B1[ T ] to think or believe something will happen, or someone will arrive: 预料，预计;期待 We are expecting a lot of applicants for the job.我们预计会有很多人来应聘这份工作。 [ + (that) ]I expect (that) you'll find it somewhere in your bedroom.我想你会在你卧室里找到它。 I expect (that) he'd have left anyway.我估计无论怎么说他都已经离开了。 [ + to infinitive ]He didn't expect to see me.他没有料到会碰见我。 be fully expected toThe financial performance of the business is fully expected (= almost certain) to improve.确信公司的财务状况会大有改观。 half expect someone to do somethingWe were half expecting you not to come back.我们一直以为你多半不会回来了。 (only) to be expected normal and what usually happens: 在预料之中；并不意外 All parents of small children get tired. 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。 I don't expect we'll have any more trouble from him.我希望他再也不要给我们添任何麻烦了。 Gosh, I didn't expect to see you here!天哪，没想到会在这儿见到你！ I'd expected to put weight on when I gave up smoking, but I didn't.我以为我戒烟后体重会增加，不过没有。 Our department expects to make five new appointments this year alone. This is your captain speaking. We expect to be landing at London Heathrow in an hour's time. Planning, expecting and arranging accidentally accidentally on purposeidiom advertent advisedly aim at something bargain conscious game something out hatch have something in mindidiom have something up your sleeveidiom horizon scanning how are you fixed for something?idiom pencil provide for someone provident providently provision purpose purposefully expectverb (DEMAND)B2[ T ] to think that someone should behave in a particular way or do a particular thing: 要求;期望 expect something from someoneI expect punctuality from my students.我要求我的学生守时。 [ + to infinitive ]Borrowers are expected to(= should) return books on time.借阅者应该按时归还图书。 We expect these practices to cease forthwith.我们希望这些做法立即停止。 Some people expect instant gratification. You shouldn't expect others to do your work for you.你不应该指望别人替你干活儿。 It annoys me that she just expects us to help.她只是眼巴巴地盼着我们去帮她，我真是气得慌。 The governors and the education authority expect all pupils to attend school assembly. Giving orders & commands all-points bulletin boss someone around bossily bossiness bossyboots commanding decree demand dictate exact expect instruct push someone around put something on self-ordained shove shove someone around stick summons task expectverb (BE PREGNANT)be expecting (a child/twins/a baby/etc.) B2 to be pregnant: 怀孕 She shouldn't be lifting those boxes if she's expecting.如果有孕在身，她就不该搬这些箱子。 Related wordexpected GrammarExpect, hope or wait? 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, hope or wait: typical errors We don’t use wait or wait for to say that we believe that something will happen. We use expect: … Examples of expectingexpecting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. As in earlier, non-dramatic performances like carnival or festive ritual, the audience came to the theatre expecting a dialogic relationship with the stage performers. There are currently few reasons for expecting that it will be easily increased. There was no question of expecting producers to cut back. A novice reader expecting to read this section and walk away understanding affine differential geometry and its use in mechanics will be disappointed. Girls grew up expecting to be married off by the age of twelve at the very latest. But this is hardly the time to be expecting those who are leading a desperate battle against a deadly virus to step back. This is exactly the result we were expecting. For example, a patient may state that she has given up hope for recovery and is expecting to die within a month. Here k is invoked in two contexts, one expecting an integer, the other expecting an integer list. Four per cent were still out-patients and 5 % were still expecting further surgery for their accident injuries at 3 years. Alternatively, while generally expecting a decrease of lipid stores due to energy drain upon infection, an increase might also occur. This could entail support for positions that appeared inconsistent to someone expecting linearity within a preconceived ideological framework. After a meteorite fall, people scour the country, expecting to see something strange. The marginalising of group-living is the price paid for expecting a quality professional service from the least paid and least qualified workforce. This is the type that the continuation process is expecting on that port. 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. |
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