| 释义 |
looking-forward
[f. looking vbl. n. + forward adv.]
The action of looking forward; an anticipation of future events.
1837Dickens Let. 3 Nov. (1965) I. 328 Anxious lookings-forward to the pleasure of your society. 1867People's Hymnal 205/2 One the earnest looking forward, One the hope our God inspires. 1871G. V. Smith Bible & Pop. Theol. xxiv. 248 Any conscious looking forward by the writer to a greater and more genuine sacrifice to come. 1915Beerbohm Lett. to R. Turner (1964) 242 Well, dearest Reg, again all apologies..and all lookings-forward to later on. 1955E. Bowen World of Love xi. 221 Were there not those who said that everything has already happened, and that one's lookings-forward are really memories? |