expect

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To predict or believe that something will happen ambitransitive
    — when you least expect it
  2. To consider obligatory or required.
    — England expects that every man will do his duty.
  3. To consider reasonably due.
    — My parents expected too much of me when I was in college.
  4. To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
    — We are expecting our third in June.
  5. To wait for; to await. obsolete,transitive
    — Let's in, and there expect their coming.
  6. To wait; to stay. intransitive,obsolete
    — I will 'expect until my change in death, / And answer at Thy call

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
expectative expected expectee expecter expecting expection expective expect the unexpected half-expect halfexpect overexpect sexpect unexpected
相关词
expectable expectancy expectant expectation

词源

From Latin expectāre, infinitive form of exspectō (“look out for, await, expect”), from ex (“out”) + spectō (“look at”), frequentative of speciō (“see”).
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