anticipation
预期
definition
noun
her eyes sparkled with anticipation
the action of anticipating something; expectation or prediction.
translation of 'anticipation'
noun
悬念,
预期,
预料
example
her eyes sparkled with 'anticipation'
they manned the telephones in 'anticipation' of a flood of calls
her eyes sparkled with 'anticipation'
Older people I think are probably in a stage of life where the 'anticipations' of death are more frequent.
But 'anticipations' of victory, however rational, were premature.
This erotics of identification invariably frustrates the viewers' 'anticipations' and appeals instead to their puzzle-solving abilities.
With its ability to fold a mythic idealized past into 'anticipations' of the postwar city and its new social arrangements, the community center was an ideal vehicle for the living memorial.
It was the aroma of the Christmas cake baking that triggered the 'anticipations' and excitement.
It would be a massive understatement to say that Condorcet's forecast of advances in science, technology, and medicine has held up better than his 'anticipations' of progress in ethics and politics.
This simple reality is hidden from view by early philosophical and theological 'anticipations' of mass schooling in various writings about social order and human nature.
There are bizarre 'anticipations' of the Princess Diana cult - airhead clothes-horse becomes martyr for entire, weeping nation - in this musical about the trophy wife of dictator Juan Peron.
After a pleasant journey we arrived safely - yet it was far from our 'anticipations' and the mood of contentment lapsed.
We may become so obsessed with our ability to anticipate future events that our 'anticipations' may seem to be real to us.
I know you are excited with the 'anticipations' of these adventures you can experience, but I am hard at work
He'd wanted some hope that his negative 'anticipations' would be proven wrong, but I had just confirmed that leaving college would not only be as bad as he feared, but actually much worse.
A brand is a well-differentiated concept for providing consumers with a benefit that will arouse motivating, exclusive and incomparable 'anticipations' .
The movie has fascinating echoes and 'anticipations' of films like Casablanca, Paths of Glory and Lawrence of Arabia, and it tells an unglamorous truth about fear among the officer classes.
Each day, we awaken with certain expectations and 'anticipations' : people we will see, things we plan to do, obligations or tasks to be fulfilled.
She has also started to conceptualise the passage of time, filling her constant conversation with memories and 'anticipations' .
Proximate preparation is all that transpires generally from, say, late October through December, in terms of 'anticipations' and plans.
‘Everybody, everywhere will be perpetually and constantly looking up, with a sense of loss and insecurity, with a vague distress of painful 'anticipations' ,’ Wells wrote.
‘These 'anticipations' were happily premature,’ he wrote later.
Poetic vision is always double vision, impressions of fact always mediated by anticipations of form; but here these 'anticipations' seem to obstruct, or even to prevent, any knowledge of a real house or real road.
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