['ekspek'teiʃən]
expectation
n. 期待,期望
v. 期待,前程

词形变化:

形容词:expectational

例句与用法:

  1. She ate a light lunch in expectation of a good dinner.
    她午饭吃得很少,期待晚饭时饱餐一顿。
  2. He has great expectations from his uncle.
    他渴望从叔叔那继承大笔遗产。

英英解释:

名词 expectation:

  1. belief about (or mental picture of) the future
  2. 同义词:outlook, prospect
  3. wishing with confidence of fulfillment
  4. 同义词:anticipation
  5. the feeling that something is about to happen
  6. the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
  7. 同义词:arithmetic mean, first moment, expected value