expectation 的定义
- the act or the state of expecting: to wait in expectation.
 - the act or state of looking forward or anticipating.
 - an expectant mental attitude: a high pitch of expectation.
 - something expected; a thing looked forward to.
 - Often expectations. a prospect of future good or profit: to have great expectations.
 - the degree of probability that something will occur: There is little expectation that he will come.
 - Statistics. mathematical expectation.
 - the state of being expected: a large sum of money in expectation.
 
expectation 近义词
belief, anticipation
更多expectation例句
- Still, the very presence of paramedics at sites where forced entry warrants are to be used could suggest the expectation that someone will be harmed.
 - “This removal was about an IG who in my mind was increasingly falling short of expectations,” he added.
 - She was a student who would drive up performance and expectations and build community.
 - One reason for that is unlike in 2000, “these companies actually have revenues and earnings, they’re not just trading on fumes or expectations,” CFRA Research’s Sam Stovall tells Fortune.
 - Few groups in stock market history have been accorded such great expectations.
 - The loss of this “expectation” game began his decline and ultimate withdrawal from the race.
 - I had a couple bluntly tell me that they hated it here, with the silent expectation that I would too.
 - Their expectation was that her petition to have her passport returned might be honored.
 - Now, there are no cliffhangers, just an expectation from the audience that the blood will flow.
 - Every day, I drove from my flat in Mayfair to Abbey Road in joyous expectation of what magic I would be participating in that day.
 - Ollie saw someone standing before it, bending slightly forward in the pose of expectation.
 - He obeyed without remark, though with an unsteady voice, as he uttered communications he knew were so hostile to her expectation.
 - Upon such expectation, Allcraft stood—upon such props suffered his aching soul to rest.
 - I knew this was a city of noble and beautiful structures, but the reality surpasses my expectation.
 - This expectation of high dividends, I need hardly say, has not been realised, and the Act in this respect has been a dead letter.