anticipate
anticipate 英 [ænˈtɪsɪpeɪt] 美 [ænˈtɪsəˌpet]
vt. 预期,期望;占先,抢先;提前使用
进行时:anticipating 过去式:anticipated 过去分词:anticipated 第三人称单数:anticipates
- To anticipate something is to be expecting it. Your dog might be waiting by the door, anticipating his next walk or squirrel chase.
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- vt. 预期,期望;占先,抢先;提前使用
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1. So, even without understanding all that this file does, you can anticipate the next step.
这样,即使不能理解这个文件的全部功能,您也可以预期下一步。
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2. But intervention is itself a sign of failure, a failure to anticipate the moment of crisis.
但是干预本身就是国家失败的标志,是一个可以预期危机的失败。
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3. Don't try to anticipate an "ideal reader" – there may be one, but he/she is reading someone else.
不要试着预期一个“理想读者”---可能存在着这么一个人,但他/她正在读别人的书呢。
- anticipate (v.) 1530s, "to cause to happen sooner," a back-formation from anticipation, or else from Latin anticipatus, past participle of anticipare "take (care of) ahead of time," literally "taking into possession beforehand," from anti, an old form of ante "before" (from PIE root *ant- "front, forehead," with derivatives meaning "in front of, before") + capere "to take," from PIE root *kap- "to grasp."
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