| 单词 | anticipation |
| 释义 | anticipation (once / 573 pages) n Anticipation is excitement, waiting eagerly for something you know is going to happen. Someone who has just proposed marriage waits in anticipation for a positive reply. Anticipation can be a nervous expectation, like when the birthday party waited in anticipation for Elmer to walk in so they could surprise him. However, anticipation can also mean to be like a Boy Scout: prepared. The weather center's anticipation of the storm prevented anyone from getting hurt. It can refer to something you'd like to prevent from happening, such as "the anticipation of a tax increase next year." Either way, it's a way of looking ahead, just like its Latin roots which mean "to take care of ahead of time." WORD FAMILYanticipation: anticipations+/anticipate: anticipated, anticipates, anticipating, anticipation, anticipative, anticipator, anticipatory/anticipated: unanticipated/anticipative: anticipatively/anticipator: anticipators/anticipatory: anticipatorily USAGE EXAMPLES“Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one,’’ people counted down in anticipation of the advertised noon opening. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) Today, the poem reads like an eerie anticipation of liberal incredulity at Brexit and Trump and the other recent upheavals. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) In anticipation of booming global gas demand in recent years, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Chevron Corp., Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) 1n the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) Syn|Hypo|Hyper prediction, prevision projection a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations prognostication, prophecy, vaticinationknowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) adumbration, foreshadowing, prefigurationthe act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand crystal gazingstaring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events divination, foretelling, fortune telling, soothsayingthe art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means abstract thought, logical thinking, reasoning thinking that is coherent and logical 2n an expectation Syn|Hypo|Hyper expectancy suspense excited anticipation of an approaching climax feverintense nervous anticipation hopea specific instance of feeling hopeful buck fevernervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter gold fevergreed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush expectation the feeling that something is about to happen 3n something expected (as on the basis of a norm) each of them had their own anticipations Syn|Hypo|Hyper expectancy life expectancy an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities expectation, outlook, prospect belief about (or mental picture of) the future 4n anticipating with confidence of fulfillment Syn|Hyper expectation hopefulness full of hope |
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