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单词 beyond expectation
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beyond (also beside, †out of) (a person's) expectation(s)
c. beyond (also beside, out of) (a person's) expectation(s): in a way differing from or surpassing what was hoped for or imagined beforehand.
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1536 J. Gwynneth Confut. Fyrst Parte Frythes Boke i. sig. av I shall for my part therfore..show the many thynges, perchaunce not a lytell beyonde thyne expectacyon.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxiijv The duke of Yorke..came to the kynges tent, where beside his expectacion, and contrary to the promise made by the kyng, he found the duke of Somerset.
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors v. f. 70 Some perchance, would loke that we..shold entreate of..pretious stones. Which matter though it be out of our purpose..yet seing it is not out of their expectation.
1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Prince xiii, in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. 217 Beyond all expectation he escaped being a Prisoner to his Enemies, because they also were defeated.
1773 S. Johnson Let. 12 Aug. (1992) II. 49 At Durham, beside all expectation, I met an old friend.
1870 H. Lonsdale Life R. Knox 65 The students..succeeded beyond expectation.
2009 Daily Tel. 1 June 29/1 Under his leadership the miners achieved rates of pay far beyond their expectations.
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