词汇 | anticipation |
释义 | anticipation noun[ U ] uk /ænˌtɪs.ɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/ us /ænˌtɪs.əˈpeɪ.ʃən/ C2 a feeling of excitement about something that is going to happen in the near future: 期望,盼望 As with most pleasures, it's not so much the experience itself as the anticipation that is enjoyable.与大多数令人快乐的事情一样,真正令人快乐的与其说是事情本身,还不如说是那种期望的感觉。 The postponement of the film's sequel has held cinemagoers ineager anticipation for several months.这部电影的续集推迟上映,这使得影迷们苦苦企盼了数月。 in anticipation (of) C2 in preparation for something happening: 预计到(…);预料到(…) She's even decorated the spare room in anticipation of your visit.她预料到你会来访,连备用客房都装修好了。 The audience waited in great anticipation, but nothing happened. The city was filled with anticipation in the weeks before the festival. We stood on the platform in anticipation, only to be told that the train was cancelled. The children jumped up and down in anticipation as the presents were produced. After months of anticipation, the holiday was a bit of a disappointment actually. Planning, expecting and arranging accidentally accidentally on purposeidiom advertent advisedly aim at something bargain conscious have something in mindidiom have something up your sleeveidiom horizon scanning how are you fixed for something?idiom I'll/we'll cross that bridge when I/we come/get to itidiom pencil provident providently provision purpose purposefully purposely settle anticipation | American Dictionaryanticipation noun[ U ] us/ænˌtɪs·əˈpeɪ·ʃən/ Anticipation is also a feeling of excitement about something that is going to happen in the near future: Skiers look forward to the first snow of winter with eager anticipation. Examples of anticipationanticipation The effects of age, gender, region of residence, health, education, income and control beliefs on the number of gain anticipations were analysed by linear regression. The two most used types were anticipations and deictics. A key issue is that the parameterization must exhibit a degree of time-dependence in order to capture anticipations of future events. Under rational expectations, it brings inflation anticipations down thereby mitigating the impact of the shock. There are anticipations of later events, references and allusions to previous ones, invented speeches, and authorial comments. In the case of the discoverers themselves, of course, this problem is easily solved by interpreting their private documents as anticipations. The majority of gain anticipations refer to making day-to-day life more enjoyable, to planning new projects such as travelling ; to intensifying social relationships ; and to self-development. However, the nature of their impact only very partially accords with the anticipations of post-colonial theory. Bioethics in the third millennium: some critical anticipations. The research path from the technologies in their current status and in research anticipations for the future could be prohibitively expensive in terms of time, funding, and scientific commitment. Deictics decreased with age, whereas anticipations increased. He maintains that the varied accounts of religious ends are all conditioned, anticipations (expressed with misplaced concreteness) of a final human condition that is beyond description by any such account. Therefore, their anticipations for the last six months have not materialised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have divided our anticipations into three periods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us hope that one-tenth of these anticipations will be achieved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of anticipation 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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