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expectation

/ek-spek-tey-shuhn/US // ˌɛk spɛkˈteɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌɛkspɛkˈteɪʃən) //

期待,期望,期望值,期待值

Related Words

prospect前景,前景展望,展望,前景预测confidence信心,信任,信念,信赖trust信任,信托,相信,信赖outlook展望,观点,展望未来,愿景possibility可能性,可能,可能的prediction预测,预估,预言,预测值intention意向,意图,意意,意义chance机会,机遇,机缘,的机会assumption假设,假定,臆断promise承诺,答应,保证,承诺书fear恐惧,担心,害怕,担忧forecast预测,预告,预报,预计likelihood可能性,可能,可能的,可能的事notion观念,概念,理念,观点hope希望,希望如此,期望,盼望view观点,查看,视图,景观expectancy期望值,期待值,预期寿命,预期presumption推定,假设,假定,推断conjecture猜测,猜想,推测,臆测probability概率,可能性

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounbelief, anticipation
Forms: expectations
Synonyms
assumption假设,假定,臆断chance机会,机遇,机缘,的机会confidence信心,信任,信念,信赖fear恐惧,担心,害怕,担忧forecast预测,预告,预报,预计hope希望,希望如此,期望,盼望intention意向,意图,意意,意义likelihood可能性,可能,可能的,可能的事notion观念,概念,理念,观点outlook展望,观点,展望未来,愿景possibility可能性,可能,可能的prediction预测,预估,预言,预测值promise承诺,答应,保证,承诺书prospect前景,前景展望,展望,前景预测trust信任,信托,相信,信赖view观点,查看,视图,景观apprehension忧虑,顾虑,担忧,担心assurance保证,确保,保险,保障calculation计算,计算方法,计算方式,计算结果conjecture猜测,猜想,推测,臆测design设计,设计方案,设计图,设计图象expectancy期望值,期待值,预期寿命,预期motive动机,动议,动词,动动嘴皮子presumption推定,假设,假定,推断probability概率,可能性reliance倚赖,倚靠,依赖,倚仗supposition假设,臆测,假定,臆断surmise推测,臆测,猜测,臆想suspense悬念,悬疑,悬疑片,悬赏looking forward展望未来,期望,盼望着

Examples

  • 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.

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