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    expectation查询结果如下:

    音标:[ˌekspek'teɪʃn]
    名词复数:expectations 词频:高频常用词
    基本释义/说明:n.预料;期望
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    n.
    ①[U][可用复]期待,盼望;预期;
    There is every expectation of a cold winter.
    冬天必将寒冷.
    ②[C]期望;[复]前程;继承遗产的希望;
    Have great expectations
    有继承大宗遗产(或晋升高位)的希望.
    We have great expectations of you.
    我们对你抱有极大的希望.
    expectation of life
    (根据概率统计求得的)估计寿命.
    -扩展释义
    n. 【法律专业】
    期待 ,预期
    n. 【地质学】
    期望,期望值,期待值
    You can see in her face that life was full of interest, expectation, and occupation.
    你可以在她脸上看到生活对她说来充满兴趣、期望和事业。
    n.
    1. 期待;预期[U][C]2. 期望,预期的事物[P1]3. 前程[P]
    That tense moment of expectation
    紧张的期待时刻
    n. 【化学】
    期待,盼望,预期
    That tense moment of expectation
    紧张的期待时刻
    n. 【机械】
    预期值,期望值
    -同义词和反义词

    词性:noun

    例句2. his body grew tense with expectation

    同义词系列1
    -expectation的不同词性形态

    形容词 变体/同根词

    expectative
    Relating to expectation.
    “But once that expectational anchor began to drag, unions had reason to fear that inflation, once ignited, would persist.”
    “Ranganathan, said the reason for the fall in the rupee’s value is fundamental as well as expectational.”
    “By the time the food itself came 50 minutes after our arrival, we were almost on the point of expectational collapse.”
    To be expected; not unusual.
    “That kind of explanation on the part of the companies is expectable, but it’s a cop-out.”
    “Instead of the expectable back yard, Marie Louise was startled to see a noble landscape leap into view.”
    “But that is in fact an almost expectable event around his age, when people must come to terms with their limitations and old dreams for themselves.”
    Anticipated; thought to be about to arrive or occur
    “An increase in employment is expected, given the improvement in our economy.”
    “This is not a defect. It is the expected behavior of our software.”
    Of a woman or female animal, in expectation of giving birth; pregnant.

    名词 变体/同根词

    One who expects.
    One from whom something is expected.
    The state or quality of being expected.
    “We have first an expectation, then a sensation with the feeling of expectedness related to memory of the expectation.”
    “If the poem partakes of any of those things, depending on the reader, it courts the sentimentality of expectedness.”
    “Greater expectedness, dependability and schedule integrity, with fewer delays and disruptions for airlines and airports will be delivered by the combined solution.”
    expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something || the state of being expected || something expected or awaited
    “Let’s temper expectancy with caution, knowing that a team is only as good, or indeed as bad, as its last outing.”
    “The country’s average adult life expectancy has been cut by six months in the biggest reduction in official longevity forecasts.”
    “She couldn’t seem to shake a feeling of expectancy, an anticipation for something that she couldn’t name.”

    动词 变体/同根词

    To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that). || To consider obligatory or required. || To consider reasonably due. || (continuous aspect only, of a woman or couple) To be pregnant, to consider a baby due. || (obsolete, transitive) To wait for; to await. || (obsolete, intransitive) To wait; to stay.
    “I expect an eventual recovery in the slumping economy.”
    “We expect you to comply with the rules of your employment.”
    “I expect he’ll perform according to expectations.”
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