expect

英[ɪkˈspekt]美[ɪkˈspekt]

v.预期，盼望，料想，指望，怀孕；

第三人称单数：expects;

过去式：expected;

过去分词：expected;

现在分词：expecting;

例句

I don't expect him to sign anyone on.我希望他不雇用任何人。

I could hardly expect him to pay out a large sum of money for such a drawing.我很难指望他为这样一幅画付出一大笔钱。

Don't expect too much of me.I need time to come around to this new idea.不要对我期望太高。我需要时间接受这一新思想。

I didn't expect her to brush us off like this.我没有料到她会这样拒绝我们。

Don't expect too much of me.I need time to come round to this new idea.不要对我期望太高。我需要时间接受这一新思想。

I expect something to come up soon.我预料很快就要出事的。

Unfortunately we can’t expect all policemen to be paragons of virtue.不幸的是，我们不能期望所有的**都十全十美。

You can scarcely expect me to believe that.别以为我相信那件事。

We expect a fair day's wage.我们希望得到一天应得的工资。

The government can’t expect the taxpayer to bail this company out indefinitely.*府不能指望纳税人无限期地帮助这家公司摆脱困境。

英语六级真题

The state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February, Martin said.

Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

Higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems.

That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to generate.

BrightLine iTV, which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

We can’t expect kids to turn off that admiration when the same person is selling sugar.

When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.

Traditionally, guidelines have heavily influenced the practice of medicine, and the latest ones are expected to make doctors more conscious of the economic consequences of their decisions, even though there's no obligation to follow them.

She is expecting up to 20 people at the first meeting she has called, at her local pub in the Cornish village of Polperro.

People should not expect too much from American higher education.

Efforts to accelerate the current energy transitions didn't succeed as expected.

A CFL cannot be simply installed in an incandescent fixture and then expected to produce a visual appearance that is more than washed out, foggy, and dim.

American educates so manymore people at university that one can’t expect all those who go to be as intelligent as the much narrower band in British universities, says the professor Christopher Rakes at Boston university, I’m not against elitism, but I happen to like having people who are more eager to learn.

In fact, most children outside of the United States are expected to become bilingual or even, in many cases, multilingual.

s in the United States were expected to pursue a career path in academia (学术界)

What can be expected of "this tough-love teaching style" (Lines 8-9, Para.

As we've seen, wage earners are expected to care for not only their children but their aging parents.

Companies engaged in shipping, trucking, rail freight, delivery, and logistics (物流) have all been reporting better than expected results

How are people expected to react?

White's experience is what many psychologists had expected - that Obama would prove to be a powerful role model for African Americans.

It was not as exciting as he had expected

I have been expecting it last week.

She never expected anyone to return the books to her.

They are less healthy than we expected.

Well, I know in my case, I did an English literature degree and I didn't really expect to end up doing what I am doing now.

Chris knows that his boss likes Kim's work, and he expects that his work will be compared with hers.

You might expect that the student who had undertaken the most exhausted search would be the most satisfied with their final decision, but it turns out that's not true.

She expects that this will make women more careful when they walk around Green Ville alone at night Fortunately, there were usually no murders in Green Ville

This is the amount of calories you might expect to have in an evening meal, not in a drink.

What could British people expect if they maintain a normal body weight according to the WCRF

What kind of weather will be expected by midnight in most parts of the country?

But the least we should expect is that they do not foster divisions and exclude those who are already disadvantaged.

By comparison, you would expect to find a technological specification like this on your standard laptop in an office anywhere in the world.

first, they explain that if a given variable is playing a role in affecting well-being, then we should expect any change in that variable to correlate with the observed changes in well-being.

higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems.

It will also be necessary to understand what sort of yield farmers might expect and to establish the plant's safety.

It's in foods many of us expect, such as beef, chicken and other types of meat and dairy.

likewise, star faculty is not always found where you'd expect.

So there could be less protein, more sugar and some additives you wouldn't expect, such as caffeine.

So, we expect that the second part of the year will not be very good in terms of wage growth.

Start with a trial program, and expect to change the details as you go.

This means, for instance, a CUNY student could reasonably expect to receive the same quality of instruction from a prestigious professor as they would if they were enrolled in the same class at NYU.

We can expect that the ever-growing list of devices, systems and environments remain connected, always online and talking to each other.

You can expect that noose (束缚) to continue to tighten.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

预期;预料;期待

If you expect something to happen, you believe that it will happen.

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VERB

盼望;期待;等待

If you are expecting something or someone, you believe that they will be delivered to you or come to you soon, often because this has been arranged earlier.

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VERB

要求；认为应当得到;指望

If you expect something, or expect a person to do something, you believe that it is your right to have that thing, or the person's duty to do it for you.

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VERB

指望;期望

If you tell someone not to expect something, you mean that the thing is unlikely to happen as they have planned or imagined, and they should not hope that it will.

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VERB

怀孕

If you say that a woman is expecting a baby, or that she is expecting, you mean that she is pregnant.

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PHRASE

我认为;我猜想

You say 'I expect' to suggest that a statement is probably correct, or a natural consequence of the present situation, although you have no definite knowledge.

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PHRASE

你还想指望什么；那有什么大惊小怪的

You can say 'What can you expect?' or 'What do you expect?' to emphasize that there is nothing surprising about a situation or a person's behaviour, especially if you find this disappointing.

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英汉词典释义

vt.

预料; 预期

认为(某事)会发生; 认为(某人)会来; 预计

理应得到; 期望, 期待; 期盼

猜想; 认为某事是真实的

要求；指望

期望，希望，指望；认为…必要；认为…理应得到(from，of)

期待(婴儿) 出生

vi.

预期，期待，期望，希望

怀胎，怀孕

英英词典释义

Verb

1. regard something as probable or likely;

2. consider obligatory; request and expect;

3. look forward to the probable occurrence of;

4. consider reasonable or due;

5. be pregnant with;

6. look forward to the birth of a child;

行业词典

计算机： 期望，期待，盼望；