expected

基本解釋

I expected you sooner.
我盼望著你早來(lái)。
We expected him to be plucked on his tripos.
我們預(yù)料他在劍橋大學(xué)榮譽(yù)學(xué)位考試中不及格。
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Work on this new building is moving more quickly than was expected.
這座新樓的建筑工程進(jìn)展得比預(yù)期的快。

So, when the people of the North expected a speech of victory, he gave them a speech of reconstruction, instead.
And by this time all educated Roman men were expected to be able to speak Greek, well if possible.
那時(shí)所有受過(guò)教育的羅馬男子,有可能的話，都要會(huì)說(shuō)希臘語(yǔ)。
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It just explains that you feel a certain way and it might be contradictory to what is expected of you
它可以表達(dá)你產(chǎn)生了一種可能與他人對(duì)你的預(yù)期相反的感覺(jué)。
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When the expansion is done, 2 million passengers are expected to use the metro daily.
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If you expect something to happen, you believe that it will happen.
If you are expecting something or someone, you believe that they will be delivered to you or come to you soon, often because this has been arranged earlier.
If you expect something, or expect a person to do something, you believe that it is your right to have that thing, or the person's duty to do it for you.
If you tell someone not to expect something, you mean that the thing is unlikely to happen as they have planned or imagined, and they should not hope that it will.
If you say that a woman is expecting a baby, or that she is expecting, you mean that she is pregnant.
You say "I expect" to suggest that a statement is probably correct, or a natural consequence of the present situation, although you have no definite knowledge.